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tin cans

n. (plural of tin can English)

Usage examples of "tin cans".

But those tin cans are still rattling at the ends of the branches when a wind passes through, and Mr Pike sits out back all day staring at them.

Huddled under the counter, I turned my attention to this most preposterous of all tin cans.

He bent down and started going through a cardboard box full of tin cans, knives, watches, shoelaces, and other items.

Beneath them, chickens and a few old cats mooched around rusty lumps of metal and piles of old tin cans.

You could put them under tin cans and then watch the cans fly into the air when the firecrackers went off, or you could light the fuses and drop them into bottles and then run like hell.

And everyone in town would stop what they were doing and look north, toward Gary, toward where the three tanks stood against the sky like oversized whitewashed tin cans.

Yes, of course it is, but no matter: there are more tin cans in the world than there are human beings (a hundred billion new ones are manufactured each year in the U.

That's what the collectors say when they go around rattling their damn tin cans in the Irish bars in the United States.

The sound of it made Kurtz think of gadgets they'd constructed at summer camp a thousand or so years ago, noisemakers that consisted of tin cans and lengths of waxed string.