Example sentences for: canisters

How can you use “canisters” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT has the most on the tape's contents, said by the paper to be a soundtrack of an infrared video made from an aircraft when the tear gas canisters were launched at the bunker.

  • There have been at least 15 illegal shipments of oxygen canisters, says the paper, since the ValuJet disaster.

  • Both the NYT and LAT front a Waco revelation made yesterday by a California congressman: Information showing that the FBI used combustible tear gas canisters at Waco has been in the DOJ's possession "for years" and was even sent to Congress no later than 1995.

  • Though the FBI director and Attorney General Janet Reno have ordered a renewed inquiry into the events, they still deny that the tear gas canisters could have caused the blaze--they were fired, apparently to no effect, hours before the fire began.

  • The NYT cites law enforcement officials saying that the tape supports their account that the canisters bounced harmlessly off the bunker's roof and hence could not have started the subsequent lethal fire, and also points out that nobody in law enforcement, including Reno, has suggested that the tear-gas devices contributed to the fire.


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