cans

/ (kænz) /


pl n
  1. an informal name for headphones

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How to use cans in a sentence

  • 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. Matthews
  • Bergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.

    Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor Gates
  • The 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