Sentence examples for tiffin from inspiring English sources
The word 'tiffin' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is most commonly used in British English to refer to a light meal, especially one that is packed and taken to work or school. Example: "I always pack a healthy tiffin for my children to take to school."
noun
A (light) midday meal or snack; luncheon.
Both the method of the attack (bombs in metal tiffin boxes strapped to bicycles) and its location (near a Hindu temple) point to a home-grown Islamic group, the Indian Mujahideen.Apart from a brief debate about policing and about the competence of the home minister, Indians responded phlegmatically.
A canny political operator, he also removed duties on newsprint, to keep editors on side, and excises on tiffin boxes (a sort of lunch box), to keep his wife happy.
With the departure of most of the former colonial blimps those who took tiffin and called 60-year-old Chinese waiters "boy"—a fresher breed of administrator came in.
Indian English preserves others in aspic: tiffin, a light lunch; stepney, a spare wheel; culturable, dated by the Oxford dictionaries back to 1796 and who in England ever used it since?
Reports suggest the bombs were placed inside tiffin boxes (metal lunch-containers) strapped to bicycles parked on the roadside, a method apparently favoured by the group.
This is great to serve as a starter, vegetarian main or even as a lunchtime snack in a tiffin box.
Streetfood is everywhere, from the chai and bhel puri-sellers surrounding the massive Gateway of India to the city's famed tiffin-wallahs who spirit homecooked lunches to desk-bound workers.
I think you should hit Lexington Avenue in the 20s for Indian food (try Tiffin Wallah) and for the banh mi at Baoguette.
Tony Rice, a Ferguson resident and protester, said "the shots came from up Tiffin Avenue" – an upwards-sloping street directly opposite the police department.
Tickets & exhibitor details @ http://t.co/PO4l2IHFMe pic.twitter.com/Lm9o9Lyo3J Speaking to The Independent in 2013, the headteacher of Tiffin School, a top grammar school, said he had reduced homework to a maximum of 40 minutes a night - and he wishes he could abolish it altogether.
If it seems that the idea of abolishing homework belongs in some trendy, hippie school, the head teacher of Tiffin School, one of the top grammar schools in the country, would disagree.
