How to Use tin in a Sentence

tin

1 of 2 noun
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  • And this guy would come with this big tin tray and fan me.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The best places to store teas are in a glass jar or any dry tin with lid.
    — Barb Sands, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Add crusts to pan: Then, press each of the 8 pie crust rounds into the wells of the greased muffin tins.
    — Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 4 July 2023
  • Once the pies are out of the oven, leave them in the muffin tin for 15 minutes to cool slightly.
    — Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 4 July 2023
  • An adornment built of rags, a corruption, a tin box in the craw of a doll.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Step 3: Mold Press the baked slices into the cups of a muffin tin to shape the flowers.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Holding a glass bowl in one hand and a tin basket in the other.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The museum, a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof, was once Hurt’s home.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Bake them in a muffin tin for a grab-and-go Easter treat.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The Bruce’s Beach Park plaque is made of bronze, which is roughly 88% copper and 12% tin.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This tin kicks off the winter season with the brand's best sellers.
    — Vanessa Powell, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Each tin holds enough tea leaves for one to cups of beverage.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • It's found most often in baking sheets, tins, and pans.
    — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
  • To keep your pie a tasty golden brown, cut out a circle of aluminum foil the same size as the pie tin.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Let muffins cool in muffin tin on a wire rack for 5 minutes.
    — America's Test Kitchen, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Make mini pumpkin pies, place them in tiny tins, and tick the name tags into the center of the treat.
    — Jamie Wiebe, House Beautiful, 20 July 2023
  • Fill ramekins: Divide the crab mixture among the crab tins or ramekins, patting the tops lightly to smooth.
    — Sean Brock, Southern Living, 6 June 2023
  • This is also rich in omega-3’s and loaded with 21 grams of protein per tin.
    — Men's Health, 10 Jan. 2023
  • How to make it: add all the ingredients into a tin shaker, muddle the fruit and add the ice.
    — Amanda Mesa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The tablets come in a cute, refillable, and recyclable tin.
    — Treehugger Editors, Treehugger, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The reusable tin also makes the tablets ideal for travel or to bring to work or school.
    — Lacey Muinos, Health, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Aram walked toward a dirt road that climbed and threaded along a row of stone houses with tin and tarp roofs.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Next, use a rust inhibitor or converter to impede the tin worm’s progress.
    — Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • To keep the matcha fresh, store your tin inside a resealable plastic bag.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Choose from items like a tin of anchovies, ice cream sandwiches, bagels and more.
    — Bellamy Richardson, wsj.com, 8 Nov. 2023
  • If this or any similar thought ran through your head as the Sooners ran through the Tide like spit through a tin horn, calm down.
    — al, 29 Jan. 2023
  • To store in the freezer for up to one year: Lightly scramble each egg in a muffin tin and add a small amount of salt to each egg.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The paint on one side of the front plate was missing entirely, leaving an expanse of naked tin.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • An officer took pity, though, and escorted him to the luggage hold — a tin shed with a dirt floor.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Dozens of shacks made of cardboard and tin sprouted up in a vast open space — like a community hall — on the ground floor.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
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tin

2 of 2 verb
  • Insert the fork tines straight into the ground to a depth of 6 to 8 inches and then pull them straight out.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • That Altoids tin with just a bunch of, like, random pills in it, like candy?
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 29 July 2021
  • Strip the wires on both ends of each of the speaker cables and tin the two wires on one end of each speaker cable.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Add IPA to tin, then strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice and garnish with a grapefruit peel.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Using a soldering iron with a small tip, tin the contacts on the ends of each LED strip.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
  • However, royals eat the Continental way, holding their forks in the left hand, tines down, and the knife in the right.
    — Maria Mercedes Lara, PEOPLE.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Sophisticates use their left hand to hold a fork, tines down, and hold their knife in their right, cutting one bite at a time.
    — Carolyne Zinko, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
  • Plenty of trends from last year are still hot — ayurvedic and functional foods, tinned fish and moringa are still going strong.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • Luckily, this is one restaurant trend that's easy to take home, provided you get the right tinned fish.
    — Karen Palmer, Bon Appetit, 23 Oct. 2017
  • They were invited to England, tined and dined and they their hotels and airlines paid for.
    — Fox News, 26 May 2018
  • At its most essential, this soup can be made with noting but butter, onion and tinned tomatoes.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The aid to the 600 families of Ah Nauk Pyin delivered on Wednesday included rice, oil, beans, salt, sugar and tinned fish for a month.
    — Wa Lone, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2017
  • In addition to a strong selection of natural wine, the bar serves charcuterie, cheese, tinned fish and bistro fare.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2019
  • Chicken includes hen; masculine has two: male and man; and container holds can and tin.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2021
  • For a no-brainer appetizer, spread it on fat slices of toast and top with high-quality tinned sardines.
    — Molly Baz, Bon Appétit, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Boxes of Jose Gourmet tinned seafood, also called conservas.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The basic template is simple: Fill the dish or tin with a combination of meat, vegetables or cheese, then crack in an egg and season with spices and herbs.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
  • But there’s also tinned fish on a plate in the style of modern wine bars, chilled poached prawns with vadouvan aioli and roasted halibut in an elegant Meyer lemon beurre blanc.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Kimmel’s from-scratch version features colorful fresh green beans that are baked in a homemade white sauce that tastes cleaner than the 1950s tinned three-can combo.
    — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Rice, oats, canned tomatoes, tinned fish — all ran low at many Bay Area grocery stores last weekend as shoppers contemplated the spread of the coronavirus.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 6 Mar. 2020
  • And by the 1880s, massive canneries at the Columbia’s mouth in Astoria, Oregon, were tinning a million salmon a year.
    — Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The movie slows to a crawl when Hepburn delicately picks up her fork in her left hand, tines down, and her spoon in her right, curved gently upward, and begins to compose a salad from a serving dish.
    — Dwight Garner, Town & Country, 5 June 2013
  • Pick a protein Bring on the deli meats (salami! prosciutto! mortadella!) and tinned fish (anchovies! octopus! mussels escabeche!), and don’t be afraid to mix and match.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Since supplies could run low during a crisis, the leaflet provides checklists of what to stock up on, including mineral water, wet wipes and tinned hummus.
    — Laignee Barron, Time, 22 May 2018
  • This is Fonseca and Almeida's favorite shop in town, selling home goods, soaps, children's toys, notebooks, and the famous Portuguese tinned fish, among many other delights.
    — Cara Sanders, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2018
  • Worries that new economic lockdowns will erode demand from the world’s largest commodity consumer have dragged aluminum and tin down more than 17% from their recent all-time highs.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • These include bread, potatoes, pickles, tinned fruit, UHT milk, wound disinfectants, painkillers, toilet paper, and soap.
    — Isabella Steger, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Ormolu is an alloy of copper, zinc and sometimes tin, cast into decorative shapes and gilded with a fine gold-mercury mixture.
    — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
  • During the intersession, the second-graders worked diligently tin punching designs on pie pans, weaving baskets out of paper and creating unique toys and games.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The condom tins indeed look like makeup, and now with Urban Outfitter's partnership, hopefully carrying condoms and lube in your purse will become as common as toting around chapstick.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 10 Mar. 2018

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