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tin

[tin] / tɪn /


NOUN
package
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They looked like tiny illustrations of fish pulled from the label of a particularly fancy tin of sardines, with hooks attached.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Bottles of oil, packets of salt and a few tin cans lie among the debris.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Its Osetra caviar, which has racked up a 4.9 rating from more than 1,500 reviews, costs $125 for a 100g tin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"I thought it was another bit of tin foil to begin with, and I just saw a flash of gold and dug a little bit around it," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I heard the creaking of the tin roof heating under the sun.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

But lately she has bought several tins from Quince.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He added that Sodexo were happy to abide by police recommendations, which included no 500ml cans and that the sale of tins and alcohol should stop if there are any problems.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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

Long, flat anchovies in oval tins, and curled-up anchovies pressed against their glass jars.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Crates of tinned food sit in a pantry ready to be shipped off to local food banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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

Everton made league history when Hafnia, a Danish tinned meat company, was the first sponsor to appear on a shirt, followed days later by Liverpool, who had signed up with Japanese electronics firm Hitachi.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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

Passengers had brought on board all manner of spices and sweetmeats, tinned sardines, octopus in wine sauce, legs of lamb preserved with garlic cloves.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

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

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


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