Sentence examples for wire tin from inspiring English sources

Modern popular images of the first world war are dominated by trenches, mud, wire, tin hats and poets.

Instead, their makeshift dwellings house a lifetime's worth of foraged finds – tools, old wire, tin teapots – that spread across every surface.

He has transformed the unwieldy Curve gallery into a life-size second-world-war bunker, complete with chicken wire, tin cans, typewriters, rotting wooden cabinets full of files, even a full-size, fully functional train track, which he used to shunt building materials through the space.

George Herms is represented by "The Book of Perfection" — rusty and battered ordinary objects: wood, coils of wire, tin cans, a tea kettle, a medicine cabinet.

Add wires, tin foil, buttons, cooling coils, and other items that look like an astronaut would wear.

The engines were held together with hanger wire and tin.

Reggio classrooms are packed with a profusion of innovative materials for the children to work with, such as pebbles, dried orange peel, driftwood, tangles of wire and tin cans.

The effect of Nancy Graves's Dr. Seuss-style assemblage of festively painted, cast bronze plant forms; Deborah Butterfield's remarkably lifelike horse made from found pieces of rusted metal; and Judy Pfaff's expansive, rickety cloud of bedsprings, wire and tin cans -- all depend in significant measure on their clever play with Early Modernist modes.

The simplest form of wire is tinned copper wire, available in various gauges depending on required current-carrying capacity.

As lithium ions flow from the positively charged cathode into the 200-nanometre diameter wires of tin oxide that make up the negatively charged anode, the nanowires writhe and bulge, causing them to expand up to 2.5 fold.

He said the inspiration for the tin, wire glass and corrugated metal structure was, indeed, utilitarian rooftop structures, as well as the stonework found above the cornice of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.