cans
/ (kænz) /
an informal name for headphones
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How to use cans in a sentence
They were among the first companies to begin packaging baby food in glass jars instead of cans.
The Flying Sorcery of Dr. Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch Is Marvel's Most Bizarre Magician | Rich Goldstein | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPicking up cans and bags out of the bin and throwing them back, over and over.
The Stacks: A Chicken Dinner That Mends Your Heart | Pete Dexter | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo some people, keeping orcas in metal cans is violent animal-rights abuse; to others it is apparently “normal and legal.”
Activists: Moscow Sea Park Is ‘Torturing’ Its Orca Whales | Anna Nemtsova | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome bloody sticks had been found nearby, along with beer cans and a Newport cigarette butt.
How the North Carolina GOP Made a Wrongfully Convicted Man a Death Row Scapegoat | Michael Daly | September 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmong the garbage was the typical detritus of public gatherings: water bottles, soda cans, candy wrappers.
They found it not composed entirely of ashes and tin cans, either, although both of these were there in great profusion.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner"Here are our canteens," he went on excitedly, picking both of the gasoline-cans out of the rumble.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsBergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor GatesThe milk is very warm when it comes from the cows so Farmer Green puts it in great cans as tall as Jehosophat.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon Anderson"You must do some more work, yourselves," he told them as he handed each one of the shiny green cans.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon Anderson
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