Sentence examples for scrap tin from inspiring English sources

Several processes have been devised for reclaiming the metal from scrap tin or tin-plated articles.

"Repurposed" is too weak a word to do justice to his ingenuity when confronted with a scrap of tin.

Eugène Atget photographed their hovels, cobbled together from odd scraps of tin and lumber.

It featured wire mesh, fake leaves, scraps of tin and wood, and house paint in dusky white, pinks, and blues.

What remained were lightweight scraps of tin and plywood piled like jackstraws a few feet deep along the roadside, crowned by tufts of faded orange insulation.

I recycle newspapers, re-use plastic bags, and even, heaven help me, scraps of tin foil.

The forgotten residents of Cité Soleil - the Western Hemisphere's poorest slum -- will remain forgotten, left to scramble for scraps of tin and timber among the rubble to rebuild their squalid dwellings.

Every day, he collects iron scraps and tin cans in public waste and sells them to a local merchant.

Important sources of tin scrap are used bearings, solder alloys, or bronzes.

The family now lives in shacks made of carpets, scraps of corrugated tin and plastic sheeting set up not far from railroad tracks.

Gehry, whose deconstructed music pavilion sits behind the visitors' centre, has designed a series of platforms from which to observe a piece by Californian Tony Berlant – the artist whose colourful 60s tin scraps pinned to plywood inspired Gehry's award-winning Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.