Example sentences for: tin

How can you use “tin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In any case, the Swedish Academy has explained why it gave Grass the prize--because of his first novel, The Tin Drum , published in 1959.

  • Just west of the fort is the former royal palace of Ras El-Tin, built for Mohammed Ali in 1834.

  • The poem that sets it out most clearly is "The Man on the Dump," in which he writes: "One sits and beats an old tin can, lard pail.

  • A trade treaty gave the Dutch command of the spice trade but reserved Johor’s rights in tin exports from Perak, Selangor, and Klang.

  • But in the 1870s, under the Colonial Office, the handsome profits gained from exporting Malayan tin through Singapore forced the British to take a more active role in Malay affairs.


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