Sentence examples for old tins from inspiring English sources

Old tins.

It had some old tins of paint, bin bags, shopping bags, Christmas stuff and a couple of ancient computer monitors.

Below us was a little wooden bungalow, freshly painted in butterscotch and sky blue with deep shady verandas, the balustrades laden with geraniums in rusty old tins.

Is there an efficient and effective way to decant used paint from old tins for reprocessing, after their collections, for instance?

No machines, psychiatrists, inner chimps or heated trousers (probably not really necessary in Kenya anyway); just a red dusty track, and a few weights made out of old tins filled with concrete.

A slightly chilly spell causes communications systems to collapse, the transport network buckles under three millimetres of snow, shops are forced to close by a sustained frost and we all end up eating decades old tins of Alphabetti Spaghetti.

And she shows me old tin-types of these people.

The refinery processed slag from old tin mines — material rich in rare earth ore.

They sawed a mattress in half and plumbed their toilet into an old tin mineshaft.

Sometimes he wanders over to the old tin shed, a kind of shrine.

"I used an old tin can to shield the bulb," he recalled with a laugh.