Sentence examples for take a tin from inspiring English sources

Even now if we went camping with the kids, I'd take a tin of hotdogs.

It would take a tin ear to miss the hopes for medical innovation embedded in the task that geneticist scientists have accomplished.

On such days, I would often take a tin bucket along and pick huckleberries and take them home, and my mother or our cook, a Negro woman named Anna McNair, would make deep-dish huckleberry pies out of them.

Instead, take a tin of Vaseline, which will also melt, but will be less annoying.

You take a tin-can, the bigger the tin-can the better, like the family size ones that peach halves come in, and I think you cut them with scissors.

Yes, there is something satisfying about the "thunk" of a can in a brightly wrapped collection bin, something wonderful about the idea of taking a tin from your pantry that you don't need and bringing it to Pastor Kansfield for someone who does.

(There's so much tea, in fact, he insisted on my taking a tin).

It takes a "tin ear," as New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin puts it.

"I told one of the guys to take a mess tin full of stew and a mug of tea to her, and when she got up to go, I'd put a couple of tins of food near her, so she could get them without coming too close to us, and a can opener, too," he recalled in a 1996 interview.

Take a clean, sturdy tin can, such as a soup can holding at least 10 oz.

And then put it back, made my way to the tinned food aisle, took a can of tuna and walked out the door.