tin

Example Sentences

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Sela shrugged and poked through a round tin of beads with her fingertip.

From Literature

Dad always used to keep a tin of the candy in the console of his car, and I’d always sneak outside and pick out the pineapple ones.

From Literature

The company is known by its red-capped bottled spices and rectangular tins and owns brands including French’s yellow mustard, Old Bay seasoning and Cholula hot sauce.

From The Wall Street Journal

It covers the early production of bronze – a copper and tin alloy – up to the first uses of iron.

From BBC

It was rescued and saved by Rick Flagan, a professor of chemical engineering and environmental science, who found it in a tin film canister in a Caltech closet.

From Los Angeles Times