Sentence examples for as a tin from inspiring English sources

Since the news of my six-week collaboration with Sainsbury's has emerged, I feel I should have gone into hiding in a rather large 13p can of tinned potatoes, refashioned as a tin hat, to avoid the hate mail and expressions of disappointment that are littering my inbox and Twitter feed.

So, O.K., what's as warm as a tin roof?

"The looters didn't leave behind so much as a tin of sardines.

Your life as a Tin Pan Alley and Popeye songwriter ended 70 years ago today.

In focus groups, he's described as a tin man, a shell, an empty suit, vacuous, a multimillionaire in mom jeans.

It's about as close to parmesan as a tin of spam is to slices of vintage jamón ibérico de bellota.

For this method, you'll need three glass jars, preferably with interchangeable lids, an empty tin such as a tuna tin and some rags or newspaper.

Strategically commanding both river valleys, the community flourished as a tin-collecting centre despite its malaria-infested jungle location.

From humble beginnings as a tin-mining shanty, it has evolved into a culturally diverse 21st-century metropolis.

It has now confirmed them as having a tin ear for common decency.

His autobiography, "A Sort of Life," details experiments with Russian roulette, but Sherry also reports less convincing early attempts such as eating a tin of hair pomade and going swimming after taking more than a dozen aspirin.