CANISTER in a Sentence

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For CANISTER, below is one of 7 sentences:
An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANISTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
canister
 n.  small box or case for tea, coffee, etc
Classic Sentence:
1  The entrance to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
2  Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  Soft language issued from their spittleless lips as they swished in slow circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds, dragging their long tails amid the rattling canisters.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  The canisters were almost out of her reach; I made a motion to aid her; she turned upon me as a miser might turn if any one attempted to assist him in counting his gold.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  A gunman killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of the new Batman movie, sparking pandemonium when he hurled a gas canister into the auditorium and opened fire on moviegoers.