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  • noun Plural form of canister.

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Examples

  • Packed in canisters containing as many as 600 bomblets (each about the size and shape of a softball), and designed to scatter over a wide area and explode upon impact, cluster bombs fail at such a high rate that large numbers of bomblets remain unexploded after the combatants have left.

    Letters to the Editor 2007

  • Packed in canisters containing as many as 600 bomblets (each about the size and shape of a softball), and designed to scatter over a wide area and explode upon impact, cluster bombs fail at such a high rate that large numbers of bomblets remain unexploded after the combatants have left.

    Letters to the Editor 2007

  • It was a decorative scene, if I had – literally – had the stomach for it: Rosendo, a chubby white-robed figure, coaxing the charcoal embers into life with a round fan of plaited green-and-red straw, while Fernanda, her starling-black hair swinging in a thick rope, took down several small canisters from a shelf and sprinkled from them into a copper saucepan careful expert pinches of home-dried herbs.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • Dried currants and raisins, for cakes and puddings, should be kept in canisters in another closet; and almonds and raisins for dessert in boxes.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • Two of her coin canisters were stolen - one from the counter at a hardware store, the other from a nearby liquor store.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Two of her coin canisters were stolen - one from the counter at a hardware store, the other from a nearby liquor store.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Two of her coin canisters were stolen - one from the counter at a hardware store, the other from a nearby liquor store.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Instead of overseeing the war in Iraq or homeland security, its members have held press conferences announcing that they, if not the Pentagon, have at last found Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction (degraded mustard gas and sarin canisters from the 1980’s).

    July 2006 2006

  • Purchase-triggered programs executed by smaller causes and companies raise little money, hence the preference for direct donation programs like coin canisters or pinups.

    Joe Waters: Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving Joe Waters 2011

  • Purchase-triggered programs executed by smaller causes and companies raise little money, hence the preference for direct donation programs like coin canisters or pinups.

    Joe Waters: Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving Joe Waters 2011

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