Sentence examples similar to tin hood from inspiring English sources
The number of tin, hood-installed medallions, now at 13,587, is fixed by New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission, which also protects yellow cabs' two most precious rights: picking up people hailing on the street and picking up passengers from the dedicated lines at LaGuardia and J.F.K. Airports.
LOS ANGELES — The long series of events leading to the trial of the Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano on charges of racketeering and wiretapping began on June 20 , 2002 when a journalist, Anita M. Busch, found a note saying "Stop" taped to her car, a fish and a rose in a tin tray on the hood, a bulletlike hole piercing the windshield.
That has driven the value of a medallion -- the tin plate, bolted to the hood, that makes a taxi official -- to $250,000.
The medallion is not just a license to operate a cab and a franchise worth hundreds of thousands of dollars but also a tin plate that is bolted onto a cab's hood.
So, you fear, this means your next car will have to be a boring tin box with a pair of squirrels on treadmills under the hood.
The rain hitting the hood of my green windbreaker sounded like hail hitting a tin roof.
Either way, the additional chassis work required to keep it rigid, along with the gubbins required to get the hood up and down, add around 270kg to the vehicle's weight compared to the tin-top Evoque.
RIN TIN TIN, by Susan Orlean.
