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How to use canned in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Canned means preserved in cans. Example: “If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned.”

Examples of canned by meaning

adjectivePreserved in cans.

  • If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned.

adjectivePreviously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.

  • The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.
  • The interpreter gave us a canned history of the site.
  • Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer

adjectiveCancelled or thrown away, said of a project or news article.

  • The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.1997, Frederick T. Smith, Backroom Briefings: John Curtin's War

More sentences with canned

  • He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.From the entry can
  • Q: What about food? A: We're planning to stock up on canned goods before November.From the entry stock up
  • I wrote a complaint to the company, but they just sent me a canned response in reply.From the entry canned response
  • They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.From the entry can
  • Cheap, low-quality goods (such as canned food) are inferior goods for many people. The more money they have, the less they purchase those goods.From the entry inferior good
  • These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts.2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry plastic
  • Last weekend, we previewed the cringetastic, canned part of what will be our last show in May.2021, Sara Fujimura, Faking Reality. From the entry cringetastic
  • I prayed for the buttery balik (smoked sturgeon) instead of the prestigious but disgusting canned cod liver.2013, Anya von Bremzen, “1970s: Mayonnaise of My Homeland”, in Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing, New…. From the entry cod liver
  • We snitzed and canned 56 quarts of pears by two o'clock.2007, Harry W. Rutt, Back porch memories, page 82. From the entry snitz
  • At home you can make Johnny Marzetti with canned soup, noodles, and ground beef.2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry Johnny Marzetti
  • People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.1983, Audrey Borenstein, Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America (non-fiction), Associated…. From the entry put up
  • You may stuff blinchiki with slightly sweetened cottage cheese, or with canned and drained fruits or preserves.1961, Kyra Petrovskaya, Kyra’s Secrets of Russian Cooking, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →LCCN, page 157. From the entry blinchik
  • Besides, here 's a chance to take in three centuryfuls of history at a gulp, already canned.1924, Thomas Morris Longstreth, The Lake Superior Country, page 167. From the entry centuryful
  • There is need of articulation — a combined effort to "uncan the canned goods."1915, Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly … of the Legislature of the State of California, page 282. From the entry uncan
  • In some cases, workers anticipating a re-org may stop working altogether since they expect their project to get canned.2023 November 28, JS Tan, “It's All Bullshit”, in The Baffler. From the entry re-org
  • Soybean and chickpea aquafabas are particularly thick (think about the goo in canned chickpeas), but any bean water.2019, Kirsten K. Shockey, Christopher Shockey, Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments. From the entry aquafaba
  • Aquafaba was recovered from 10 commercial canned chickpea products and correlations among aquafaba composition, density, viscosity and foaming properties were investigated.2018 October 3, Youn Young Shim, Rana Mustafa, Jianheng Shen, Kornsulee Ratanapariyanuch, Martin J. T. Reaney, “Composition and Properties…. From the entry density
  • “Like that canned version of ballet with an urban zhoozh.2018 September 21, Siobhan Burke, quoting Kyle Abraham, “The Choreographer Kyle Abraham Mixes Things Up at City Ballet”, in New York Times. From the entry zhoozh
  • It was always canned and was presented only for eating mixed cold in tuna salad or hot in tuna casserole.2013 December, Susanna Hoffman, Victoria Wise, “Shimmering Fare from American Waters”, in Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry fishify
  • "I got canned." Rey shrugged his shoulders.2012, Rick Silvestre, The Black Widow Gang, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry goodie two shoes
  • Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.2006, Wayne Gisslen, Mary Ellen Griffin, Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs. From the entry nap
  • As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food.2000 May 9, Myrtle Beach Sun-News, Sect. A, p. 1. From the entry piddle
  • She was on welfare, had two children, practically illiterate she was; she could barely read the labels on canned food.1978, George Davis, Love, Black Love, Anchor Books, →ISBN. From the entry get one's head straight
  • So we’ll just have to get along on canned apples and graham-crackery crusts at 65 cents per pie.1965 July 10, Win Mills, “No fees for bee’s knees”, in The Ottawa Citizen, 123rd year, number 842, Ottawa, Ont., page 4. From the entry graham-crackery
  • It contains two kinds of biscuit, canned meats, coffee tablets, concentrated bouillon, lemon juice powder, chocolate bar and chewing gum.1943 February, “12,000,000 meals a day”, in Popular Mechanics, page 86. From the entry K-ration
  • Proprietary canned goat’s milks are on the market.1937, J[ohn] P[rice] Crozer Griffith, A[lbert] Graeme Mitchel, “Artificial Feeding in the First Year”, in The Diseases of Infants and…. From the entry goat's milk
  • The trail from Siboney to San Juan was littered with canned rations, blouses and outfits too hampersome and heavy to carry.1900, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Convention of Officers of the Wisconsin National Guard. From the entry hampersome
  • I expected the open-air markets, but defrosted bouillabaisse and canned ratatouille weren’t what I imagined to be staples of Parisian culinary life.2025 November 3, Julia Belluz, “The French Secret to Eating Healthy? Prepared Food and Frozen Dinners.”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry mainstay
  • A former Chili Queen could even nab a job working on the line at the Gebhardt packing plant, making canned chilies and tamales.2016, Sarah Lohman, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, page 72. From the entry chili queen
  • Corn pudding, also called Puddin’ Corn and Hoppy Glop, is traditionally made with fresh corn, but you can also used canned cream-style corn.2015 September, Susan Wittig Albert, “Recipes”, in The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page…. From the entry hoppy glop
  • Over the subsequent 12 to 18 hours, Jenny became anxious after she was fed canned food and began to retch and hypersalivate.2013, Jane E. Sykes, Canine and Feline Infectious Diseases, →ISBN, page 529. From the entry hypersalivate
  • She also put new shelving in every closet and the kitchen pantry, where she stacked and restacked the canned goods with precision.2008 March 27, Kate Murphy, “Nesting With a Vengeance (and a Deadline)”, in New York Times. From the entry restack
  • The American Academy of General Dentistry says that noncola carbonated beverages and canned (sweetened) iced tea harm tooth enamel, especially when consumed apart from meals.2007 March 27, Jane E. Brody, “You Are Also What You Drink”, in New York Times. From the entry noncola
  • They are available dried, or canned.2006, Fabien Bellahsen, Daniel Rouche, France: Mediterranean Cuisine, page 60. From the entry garbanzo bean
  • I heartily recommend buying dried chickpeas and cooking them at home (page 35): the ready-cooked canned ones don’t have the same legumy taste.2004, Victoria Jenanyan Wise, The Armenian Table Cookbook: 165 Treasured Recipes that Bring Together Ancient Flavors and 21st-Century…. From the entry legumey

Meaning of canned

  1. adjective Preserved in cans.
  2. adjective Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.
  3. adjective Drunk.

Full definition of canned

Questions about canned in a sentence

How do you use canned in a sentence?
Canned is used as an adjective. For example: “If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned.”
What is a short sentence with canned?
“They are available dried, or canned.”
What does canned mean?
Canned means preserved in cans.

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