tin
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She added drivers can also keep their keys in a metal container, such as a biscuit tin, or even the microwave at home.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Her home of salvaged wood was still standing after the storm but the tin roofs had been blown off the kitchen and bedroom.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The website for Loft, a Los Angeles brand, features more markdowns than a bikini brand in winter—the discounts have included a 125g tin of Osetra slashed from $346 to $138.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
On today’s bait menu: a tin of Wild Planet sardines, a bag of tuna flakes and a clamshell container of roasted chicken wings Navratil picked up from 7-Eleven on the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He had a tin button pinned on it with the J.I.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
But lately she has bought several tins from Quince.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
It features on everything from whisky bottles to biscuit tins - and even appeared in the hit US show Schitt's Creek.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
An impending heatwave has threatened to stow away — or rather, further preserve — countless tins of anchovies.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Across the city in a suburb of Beirut, kitchen shelves were stacked with sauces and tins crowded the walls as volunteers prepared green beans and fried rice balls.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Both her hands are wrapped in thick bandages—she must've cut herself on broken bottles or empty tins while cleaning out the trash cans around Union Station today.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
In February, Waitrose said it would suspend sales of fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel due to overfishing concerns, while tinned products would be phased out as existing stock was sold.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
A growing trend of supermarkets selling a cheaper, less nutritious alternative to tinned mackerel is an example of "skimpflation", a consumer group has said.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Keep foods like dried and canned beans, canned tomatoes, tinned fish, olive oil, and a variety of whole grains on hand so you always have something to cook with.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
The meals of hot dogs and tinned fruit were revelatory to children used to the flavorings of ginger and kimchi: “This was straight-up American food, wholesome, facile, and inert, and we adored it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The thoroughfare onto which I tinned seemed innocuous enough at first, but after a time I noticed that each block was a bit more dismal-looking than the last.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
After the war in 1922, he bought the business of J. Lesher & Son and dealt in plumbing, heating, roof tinning, spouting and stoves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2018
All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed.
From Time Magazine Archive
He estimated his process would be a third cheaper than tinning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile U. S. cattlemen will not feel the new British demand until U. S. packers can get tinning capacity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The starboard wing was heavily engaged, however, and the center had shattered under the stones of those trebuchets, some captains tinning downstream, others veering to port, anything to escape that crushing rain.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
