Use "tin can" in a sentence

1. You have to remember I have never seen a garden before, and these are very different from Earth's farms, as different as the tin can in space where I was grown

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2. “No, that one’s the truth, the RNAcid trip is that I came in a tin can from YingolNeerie?”

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3. The tin can announcement jabbered on

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4. Trip lines attached to tin cans filled with stones

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5. We had crossed No Man’s Land like taking a stroll in the park and then the inevitable happened our luck ran out and Mr Jennings ran into a tin can alarm system hung on the wire

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6. “Bleeding beer always goes straight through me,” he muttered kicking a tin can out of his way

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7. “Hello, Piers,” Lyra said, doing her best not to stare too hard at the tin cans Pier’s had wired to his boots and legs

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8. “Piers, what on earth have you got tin cans on your feet for?”

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9. Piers nodded, pulling off his strange gloves and attacking the wires holding the tin cans on his feet

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10. “The tin cans?”

11. I mean, look at the way he walks around at night with all those tin cans tied to his legs, talking about aliens all the time

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12. The man glanced down at Piers’ legs when the tin cans rattled

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13. What the hell protection he thought his stupid tin cans were, Troy had no idea

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14. After a quick search, Troy found a wound in Piers’ leg just above the tin cans

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15. Zaminoski used the metal from tin cans to fashion numbers and letters that he painted black and affixed to the boat’s bow

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16. You can make a homemade smoker box by using a tin can

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17. This violated civil and criminal statutes forbidding retired regular navy officers (Erb had been a CAPT and tin can commander) from selling to SEA 02 for at least two years following their retirement

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18. With tin cans clutched in our fists we searched the grounds for anything we could catch

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19. I always wanted to use a glass jar to be able to see what we caught, since watching praying mantises and lightning bugs in a tin can just didn’t cut it

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20. spit across the room, missing a rusty tin can by at least

21. rattling in a tin can

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22. Grover trotted around with a full plate of tin cans and enchiladas, and his goblet was full of double-espresso latte, which he kept muttering over like an incantation: "Pan! Pan!"

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23. Whatever she was going to say was interrupted by Grover, who stumbled out of the Big House, tripping over tin cans

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24. Grover grabbed a tin can from his snack bag and prepared to throw it

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25. Grover threw tin cans

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26. He handed me a flattened tin can that he’d probably been saving in his pocket for a thousand miles

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27. I stuffed the tin can in my back pocket

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28. The mag bombs open up the wall like a tin can, the metal tears through mortar, a fist of mineral curls around a couple of the guards pulled into the structure

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29. Up above the world so big, like a dirty little pig… It shines like a tin can of food, sans label, the last vestiges of hope for a starving family

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30. I’m tired of these tin cans

31. Tin cans on strings had been tied to the rear bumper of Martin’s car and made a din as the happy couple drove off to the cheers of one and all

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32. Empty tin cans everywhere

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33. Can Martin settled against a tree as the nurse put wood on the dying fire and set a tin can of water over the flame

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34. One was empty, the other was stacked full of tin cans

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35. Rose had made it plain that she had spent more time than she wanted cooped up inside flying tin cans and had no intention of going with them

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36. They landed at exactly the moment the car exploded blowing the roof away and bursting it open like a tin can

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37. “Kristin can you please ease up on the preconditions and the „ten thousand" rule

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38. “Oho,” the officer said, turned on the lights, and ordered such a minute search that they did not miss the eighteen little gold fishes that had not been melted down and that were hidden behind the bottles Is their tin can

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39. Grabbing an anti-gravity platform stored in one corner of the room and activating it, Fernand then selected a few bags and boxes, along with a large tin can, putting them on the anti-gravity platform

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40. But her thoughts would not settle, like a thousand stray beads, rattling around within the confines of a tin can - her head

41. He always kept his money at home in a tin can, hidden

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42. cities, millions of you fuckers in a tin can

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43. She was finishing to do that when Dean approached her with a few small tin cans in his hands

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44. The texture of tofu reminds me of the fatty pork in those big tin cans of pork and beans we'd practically live on when Mom got laid off

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45. Wasn’t like the old codger or his moll could do those tin cans any real damage

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46. Use a tin can buried in the snow for the holes or just carve out holes in the snow

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47. men reverberated around in the soup like a tin can

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48. He had managed to find a company that could supply tin cans with lids that would be the perfect size for his cheesecakes

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49. information is available, red yeast rice products other than Cholestin cannot be

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50. with excessive levels of this hormone; excessive levels of prolactin can lead to breast

51. that completes a superhero’s wardrobe; and a tin can serves as a

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52. "Imagine that we have a tin can full of water but with a small hole in its bottom such that the water drips out one drop in forty seconds

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53. Several times they had sailed into Tin Can Bay and to the lee side of Fraser

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54. Over-the-counter remedies like Claritin can be taken daily during the worst times of the year to alleviate allergy symptoms

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55. On the mantelshelf was a small round alarm clock and some brightly polished tin canisters

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56. They settled down before their huge mugs which the cook and the dummy filled up with hot tea, already mixed with milk and sugar in huge tin cans

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57. We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg

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58. The girl crawls into the wardrobe and climbs a ladder and comes back down clutching a dented tin can

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59. Coeds on summer break grabbed tin cans and began going door-to-door in their neighborhoods

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60. The wow of wobbly piped carols played in the background as badgering commands came over the speaker, conjuring images of a pinched man shouting into a tin can

61. I couldn’t see much of the car underneath the fifty-three-footer, but what I could see looked like a tin can that had gone into a meat grinder

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62. Biting his lower lip, he considered the article another moment and then forced his attention to roam and come to rest on a penholder made from a tin can wrapped in red construction paper and decorated with little green Christmas trees, a present from one of Cross’s children, no doubt

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63. Quite recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting sewer under the SaintMartin canal without interrupting navigation or emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped up

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64. Where they had been carefully set down and left, in neat bundles every few feet along the empty country road, were old roller skates, a bandanna full of knicknacks, some old shoes, a cartwheel, stacks of pants and coats and ancient hats, bits of oriental crystal that had once tinkled in the wind, tin cans of pink geraniums, dishes of waxed fruit, cartons of Confederate money, washtubs, scrubboards, wash lines, soap, somebody’s tricycle, someone else’s hedge shears, a toy wagon, a jack-in-the-box, a stained-glass window from the Negro Baptist Church, a whole set of brake rims, inner tubes, mattresses, couches, rocking chairs, jars of cold cream, hand mirrors

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65. "I'll draw you a picture, sit down!" said Jasmine and, with the incontestable authority of the lady with the keys, she led me across the hall and admitted me to the sacrosanct chamber at once, mumbling that Mona had made a mess of the closets only two hours before, but everything was now put right, and I flung myself theatrically upon the rose satin bed, beneath the rose satin canopy, nuzzled into the rose satin pillows and lay there, drenched in the scent of Chantilly, allowing Jasmine to pull off my dirty boots because it made her happy, and protected the bed, and I closed my eyes

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66. Curious fish will attack a shiny object drawn through the water: try coins, buttons, pieces of tin can, buckles — anything that glitters

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67. Pierce a small hole in the base of a tin can for each liquid and fit a tapered stick into it to govern the flow (a)

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68. They sat on the ground and ate from basins and cups and tin cans

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69. Under the trees a fire was burning, and on a hearth of flat stones blackened tin cans steamed

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70. Today, people often incorrectly attribute the term tin to anything shiny; tin foil and tin cans are prime examples of this mistake

71. Starbuck; he's coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; don't you see that big tin can there alongside of him?—that's his boiling water

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72. They rushed away to dig worms at once, Mirabel leading the van with a tin can

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