How to Use tin can in a Sentence
tin can
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These tin can planters are a fun and easy project for crafters of all ages.
—Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2023
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Or like being in a tin can that was kicked off a cliff.
—Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
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Can Challenge Take tin cans of food around the house and rip off all the labels.
—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 27 Nov. 2018
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And a lighter backpack that didn’t hold a glass jar of tomato sauce and tin cans of baked beans.
—Anthony Walsh, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2023
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Soon Johns had attached a broom, a tin can, and a spoon to different works.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
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The white heads of pampas grass were shining beyond the bridge’s guardrail, which had been half pulled away like the top of a tin can.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
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Tie two long strips of sturdy cloth like apron ties to a large tin can or small bucket.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2017
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Use a wood trellis, tin cans, and IKEA pot hangers to recreate this look.
—Janece Maze, Country Living, 2 Apr. 2023
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His heater is fashioned from strips of cardboard rolled into a tin can and filled with wax.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
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Most holes are just buried tin cans or plastic cups marked by sticks or plastic flags.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
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Some older versions of the contraptions look like large tin cans perched on top of a propane tanks.
—Sophie Quinton, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
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This is an upcycled craft that turns an old tin can into a drum.
—Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 21 Apr. 2022
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Mack also recalled gas rationing, meat coupons and saving the fat from cooked meat in a tin can.
—Glendale News-Press, 8 Aug. 2019
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After the game, the man finds his Range Rover flattened like a tin can, round hoof prints visible in the metal.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2022
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Even the average anchovy in the tin can is cured and requires no cooking.
—Joe Beddia, Bon Appetit, 17 Apr. 2017
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After the ceremony, the bride, groom, maid-of-honor and best man loaded into a car with tin cans tied to the back.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
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First, remove the labels from empty tin cans and clean them with dish soap to eliminate any odors.
—Kc Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
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To rework the lyrics of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity,’ the head on a brewski poured from a tin can far above the world would float in a most peculiar way.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
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Paintbrushes, tin cans, books and printouts are piled on a large table.
—Abigail Jones, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2015
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Their audio sounds like two people playing that tin can and string game at two ends of an Olympic-size swimming pool.
—Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
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No need to bring an extra cup, because the smaller tin can be used for shaking as well as drinking.
—Samantha MacAvoy, Good Housekeeping, 4 Jan. 2023
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On the second part of the episode, the remaining nine contestants had to cook with food that came from tin cans without labels.
—Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
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Tabb, Zarinsky and Brickelmaier are no longer on the road, isolated in a tin can with a hot griddle.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
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Leave the lids on or throw them out separately); cardboard, aluminum and tin cans.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
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Remove items mosquitoes use for breeding grounds, like old tires and tin cans.
—Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2019
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Pull the meat from the pan, set it aside in a bowl, and pour out most of the oil (into a heat tolerant disposable container like a tin can, not down the drain).
—Paula Forbes, GQ, 7 Feb. 2018
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Sambour can almost hear and smell the memories — the rattling sound of a vendor shaking a tin can of clams to entice her, the waft of dry spices.
—AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2021
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There were seminars on creating YouTube videos; a tin can Q. and A., and show-and-tells of favorite gadgets.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
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Every day is harder than the last, a Gazan woman reports through a tin can transmitter.
—Zackary Drucker, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
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From homemade ones cobbled together from tree branches and rubber bands to wrist rockets and more, no tin can or soda bottle was safe.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
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