Definition of Tin

a receptacle can made of a metallic element

Examples of Tin in a sentence

When the little boy put the pebbles in the tin for safe keeping, he could hear the clinking sound as they hit the bottom.  🔊

Keeping baseball cards in a tin is a good idea especially if you have a lid on it so that they won’t get lost.  🔊

Ms. Humphreys put her extra pencils in a tin on her desk for students to take in case they forgot theirs.  🔊

While in the garage, the wife helped her husband look for the screws by looking in a tin filled with nails.  🔊

When the tin fell onto the ground, the clinking sound of the can and its penny contents spilling out got everyone’s attention.  🔊

Other words in the Materials, Objects, Tools category:

Most Searched Words (with Video)