Sentence examples for tin snips from inspiring English sources
noun
Large, heavily-constructed scissors or shears, operated by hand and used for cutting sheets of metal.
Somebody hauled over a length of gutter and a few of them went at it with tin snips, proving some point or other.
A special form of shears used for sheet-metal work, called tin shears, or tin snips, is equipped with high-leverage handles to facilitate cutting the metal.
Later on you can add other tools: a back saw and miter box, a wire brush, tin snips, a staple gun, channel pliers and a soldering iron.
If you have to use metal corner bead instead, to bend it, you will have to cut the flanges at one-inch intervals with tin snips.
First Wingard measures the rain gutters and cuts them into three-foot sections using tin snips, which he says are "basically super-powered scissors".
On the evening of November 6 , 1997 the 'T's were nearly stolen from the north, south and west sides of Tech Tower by five students wielding hacksaws, tin snips, and rappelling equipment.
In 1955, he created Beauties of the Common Tool, in which single-page images of everyday tools – pliers, tin-snips, a crate opener, a trowel and a spanner – are shot in stark black and white.
Also mastered some tricky tin-snipping around the downspouts.
He snips, pauses, considers, snips again.
RIN TIN TIN, by Susan Orlean.
