How to Use tin in a Sentence

tin

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• The tin received the Guinness World Record for oldest, unchanged brand packaging back in 2007.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024

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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

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024