Sentence examples for ring pull from inspiring English sources

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ring pull

noun

A ring-shaped extension on the top of a can or tin, which one pulls to open it.

  • When I tried to open a tin of soup the ring pull broke off, and I had to use a tin opener instead.

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This condition let up, but then there was that ring pull swinging from the barber's glasses.

The ring pull is too small and stiff for your fingers.

And if they can't, throw them a life ring, pull them out, and throw them in again".

Bring ingredients that don't need refrigerating: cured meats like chorizo (the drier kind, not fresh) and tinned tomatoes (preferably with a ring pull) are an absolute saviour.

The New Yorker, July 16, 1984 P. 28 While Daryl Eckner, the barber, was trimming the writer's sideburns, the writer thought that he saw the ring pull from a window shade hanging down from his glasses.

By William Franzen The New Yorker, July 16 , 1984P. 28 While Daryl Eckner, the barber, was trimming the writer's sideburns, the writer thought that he saw the ring pull from a window shade hanging down from his glasses.

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There was even a version of embellishment that looked like ring pulls and soda can tabs.

For one type of ripple, called density waves, the gravity of a moon outside the ring pulls particles outward.

The weight of the center ring pulled the entire membrane into high tension, and the piece looked like a tremendous uncoiled trumpet with three bells and no mouthpiece.

As its name implies, this ring pulls in the cell membrane by a myosin-dependent process, thereby pinching the cell in half.

Attention was first drawn to the trade lawyer's interest in eco-fashion when she carried a silver bag made from recycled aluminium ring pulls to the Lib Dem conference.

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