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
“But a tin of that Ossetra alone sells for $120. So I joke to people: ‘You’re getting a deal here.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
Let the pastries cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then gently loosen them with a small offset spatula or butter knife.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Samir poured hibiscus tea from his tin kettle into two cups.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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 simplicity of the tins, their demure size and dainty contents, which often feature organic health foods, are meant to embody whimsy.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Children ran out of the flats with folded newspapers and empty Boumvita tins.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
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
Tally tinned her interface ring to bring up a menu on the wallscreen, and blinked her way through a set of eyemouse choices.
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
First will come hot and cold rolling mills and a tinning operation, which will cost a total of $89.8 million and have an annual capacity of 555,000 tons.
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
Meanwhile U. S. cattlemen will not feel the new British demand until U. S. packers can get tinning capacity.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was tinning his whole attention to physical activity so that he might not notice the nagging uneasiness beginning to force its way into the conscious part of his mind.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
