tin
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Certainly the music played a big part, the children busking on every spare square of pavement, a joyful cacophony of tin whistle, fiddle, bodhrán.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Most cymbals are made of a copper and tin alloy that is melted into molten bronze which is poured into moulds and cooled into disc-shaped blanks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
It has also pledged to restart a tin mill on the site that will employ 225 workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, rotating the tin halfway through, until the pastry is deeply puffed and golden brown.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Warren stayed on the boat, with a tin of tar paint and an enormous brush and Ratwin for company, and Nighthand led them into the city.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
As well as offering the few tins it had secured as a prize for its readers, it reported that thanks to “quiet diplomacy” between the magazine and AB Foods, negotiations are advancing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 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
Frustrated by traditional candle formats, he launched a line of portable candles packaged in small, tuna-like tins designed to make “home follow you wherever you go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The language used to describe snack tins is so flowery — and muddled by hyper-wellness jargon — it’s almost nonsensical.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Amid tins of talc and boxes of bobby pins she would curl up on the floor of the storage room, speaking in non sequiturs.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
Last year, Rainbow Tomatoes Garden, a family-owned business that claims to offer the world’s largest online selection of tinned fish, paused shipping of its salt-cured anchovy fillets.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
"I reached a ruined house with a basement and decided to stay there. Luckily, there was lots of tinned food."
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
She also watches food trends - the sardine tin claw clip is because tinned fish is having a moment.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
She tinned her board to fly away, but the machine lifted up into the air, passing right over her, and suddenly the wind was too great.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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
Through its encouragement of the tinning industry, it helped make tinned meat a part of the British diet; through its public lectures, it introduced the nation to such modern wonders as the Edison phonograph.
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
Shay put her hands in her pockets and spread her arms, tinning her dorm’s team jacket into a sail.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
