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Recent Examples of tin can
Ir basically a tin can with as many seats as possible and no distinctive/cool feature.
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The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
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This log cottage maintains its historic feel with vintage quilts, a farm table, tin cans holding kitchen utensils, and its shelves of antiques.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Most of them are insignificant: a tin can, a graft of clothing, an old basket or a ski pole.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
Prohibition didn’t stop the brand from smuggling its whiskey into American speakeasies in tin cans, nor did a limited marketing budget keep the company from taking advantage of the Olympic zeitgeist.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
From $325 per night. BOOK NOW The Garden House in Alder, Montana
This log cottage maintains its historic feel with vintage quilts, a farm table, tin cans holding kitchen utensils, and its shelves of antiques.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Most of them are insignificant: a tin can, a graft of clothing, an old basket or a ski pole.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
Prohibition didn’t stop the brand from smuggling its whiskey into American speakeasies in tin cans, nor did a limited marketing budget keep the company from taking advantage of the Olympic zeitgeist.
—Lilian Raji, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for tin can
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tin can
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Over the past month, M23’s lightning advances have expanded its control over North Kivu province’s lucrative coltan, gold and tin ore mines, uprooting thousands in what was already one of the world’s most dire humanitarian crises.—
Reuters,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Excavations also uncovered two tin weights used for spinning wool and a very rare metal comb used for making clothing, archaeologists said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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No one could have expected a surprise Nirvana reunion with a rotating cast of female singers standing in for the late Kurt Cobain, but that’s what fans received Thursday night with Dave Grohl behind the drums, Pat Smear on guitar and Krist Novoselic on bass.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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The song opens with an electric guitar line, a propulsive drum beat, and some textured fiddle.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2025
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Once most of the U.N. Building has evacuated, Peter and Catherine team up with the NYPD and U.N. security to deal with the 13 canisters of K.X. loaded into the rooftop HVAC.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
27 Jan. 2025
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What’s the difference between canister and compressor ice cream makers?—
Alaina Chou,
Bon Appétit,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Tin can.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tin%20can. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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