Sentence examples for tin of coffee from inspiring English sources

There is a tin of coffee in the kitchen, but it is strictly reserved for guests only, and there is a half-shekel on the dressing table for each of the boys to buy a sandwich at school today.

And so it was with the invention of the hovercraft, which began with an empty tin of cat food, an empty tin of coffee and a hairdryer.

Don't judge a tin of coffee by its poorly photographed wildlife!

I had a little tin of Coffee Mate I kept in my desk drawer because we weren't allowed actual milk.

An 8.8-ounce tin of the coffee retails for $21.95, slightly higher than your average coffee cost.

He traced the shrinking package trends to the late 1980s, when companies like Chock full o' Nuts downsized the one-pound tin of ground coffee to 13 ounces.

"The Werewolf organization, a network of Nazi saboteurs who would fight to create a Fourth Reich in the event Hitler's empire crumbled, were to leave tins of instant coffee powder and other foods laced with toxins where they could be found by British and American soldiers," The Daily Mail of London wrote, describing the declassified dossier.

Never ever coffee, which was a mystery to us, although a tin of Camp Chicory & Coffee Essence did live in the cupboard for more than a decade, with me and my brothers occasionally feeding each other spoonfuls for a dare.

She seemed haunted by the quaint idealism of the revolution, the men who had worked for a pittance, the wives who had cooked meals out of coffee tins.

Staring out from under a wiry thicket of eyebrows, he would rummage in his desk drawer and comment caustically on its contents, compare the shrinking quantities of coffee tins, ruminate on the existence of God – he was an agnostic – or mock the absurdities of the politically correct.

When he emerged on the art scene in the late 1950s, Johns' tightly controlled studies of everyday objects, his sculptures of coffee tins and ale cans, were read as a rebuke to Jackson Pollock and the abstract impressionists and he has since been called the father of pop art.