Definition: 1. A chemical element. Tin is a soft silver-white metal that is often mixed with other metals or used to cover them to prevent them from rusting. 2. Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour. 3. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
Use 'tin' in a sentence:
1. He passed a cairn of stones that once had been a chimney, and a dry well covered with a slab of the tin so rusty it served as more warning than a safeguard.
2. This tin can hold that one.
3. They opened a tin of sardines.
4. A 12-year-old might need to be shown that raiding the biscuit tin without asking permission is acceptable, but that borrowing a parent's clothes without permission is not.
5. When pouring molten glass onto the molten tin, the underside of the glass would also be perfectly flat.
6. She undressed the child before putting her in the tin bath.
7. The tea was sweetened with a hoarded tin of condensed milk.
8. The kitchen cupboard was stocked with tins of soup and food.
9. The bedroom needed three tins of paint.
10. The tins had to be kept away from dampness.
11. She accidentally knocked the tea tin off the shelf.
12. The Tin Woodman built a truck and pulled the Lion with the Scarecrow.
13. Worst of all, for a playwright specializing in characters who use the vernacular, he has a tin ear for dialogue.
14. The year before, she visited Mexico and bought back hand-made table cloths, mirrors with frames of tin and paper flowers.
15. Several young men were kicking a tin can along the middle of the road.
16. The tins were made of tin.
17. A whitesmith is a person who works with "white" or light-colored metals such as tin and pewter.
18. This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.
19. She'd cut a jagged hole in the tin, bending a knife in the process.
20. The vast majority live in tin shacks without electricity, clean water or sanitary facilities.
21. Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years, and then they will be dug up, washed, compressed into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room.
22. Ease the pastry into the corners of the tin, making sure you don't stretch it.
23. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals.
24. Students who carried their lunch often did so in a re-purposed bucket or tin of some kind.
25. Nickel and tin rose in London.
26. The scenes from Malaya include a rubber plantation, Chinese temples, tin mining in Perak, tobacco planting, and pineapple-picking in Penang.
27. Use a rubber spatula to scoop the purée into the prepared tin and leave to set for at least 6 hours or overnight.
28. In 1914 my father bought a Flivvor or Tin Lizzie, a Model-T Ford.
29. The kitchen cupboard was stocked with tins of soup.
30. One is indium tin oxide.
31. This is Tin Can Town, described by the mayor as a "temporary relocation area", but by its residents as a concentration camp.
32. A blend with better properties could be obtained by adding phenolic resin tin bichloride curative.
33. Her eyes squeezed shut, she felt inside the tin, expecting it to be bare.
34. He lived on a diet of water and tinned fish.
35. Line a tin with lightly-greased greaseproof paper, making sure the corners fit well.
36. She popped out to buy a tin of soup.
37. The glass settled to a thickness of six millimetres because of surface tension interactions between the glass and the tin.
38. Unless the situation in the shops improves, in ten years' time we may all have to subject ourselves to a body-search every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans!
39. Luckily, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were not troubled by the smell.
40. On the flyover near Balintawak station, I peer down at a chessboard of tin roofs.
41. Among the mineral deposits of the province, tin occupies first place; copper comes second.
42. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.
43. Line the base and sides of a 20cm deep round cake tin with paper.
44. If the glass were kept hot enough, it would flow over the molten tin until the top surface was also flat, horizontal and perfectly parallel to the bottom surface.
45. There are only two tins of powdered milk left.
46. Occasionally, a bubble is not removed during refining, a sand grain refuses to melt, a tremor in the tin puts ripples into the glass ribbon.
47. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 45 minutes.
48. He found a coin in his pocket and slipped it into her collecting tin.
49. Brush the sides of the tin with butter.
50. He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route.
51. In the guard's van lay my tin trunk.
52. Next, add two tins of tomatoes.
53. He reached for a tin of tobacco on the shelf behind him.
54. Spread the mixture in the cake tin and bake for 30 minutes.
55. Place a plate over the cake tin and invert it.
