| 单词 | tin |
| 例句 | We imitated the way you had to lift her head a little so she could drink water, she sucked it up slow out of a green tin cup. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She handed me a rag and just as soon as she’d splashed one of the tin cans in the water and give it to me I’d dry it and stick it in the wooden box. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The squad had just got some new barrels for the sixties and two new M-79 S. They were sitting around a tin can full of carbon tet cleaning the cosmolene off the weapons. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I dug into the tin box for the cellophane wrapped package of big wooden matches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Panic swarmed up me like wasps in a tin. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A punch from an Ent-fist crumples up iron like thin tin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was plenty of cold beer, three hot meals a day, a tin roof over his head. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice was somewhere at the back of the shed, detached and peculiarly muffled behind the tin walls. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Where’s my patch box?” he asked then, and Mary gave him the little tin box full of little pieces of greased cloth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “That Silver Leaf Lard’s the best for baking,” she said, patting the number-five tin. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The slim, stained fingers guided the brush, leaving a trail of yellow leaves across the tin. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Naima hadn’t noticed the shining rectangle of unpainted tin propped up in front of her. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the lever, hearing the rattle of coal against tin and seeing the quivering embers grow black. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy picked up Sounder’s bent tin pan and carried it into the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Naima stayed where she was and listened to the rasp of thorns clawing the tin. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Rice, oatmeal, dehydrated potatoes, canned roast beef, gingersnap cookies, sugar, coffee, and chocolate were some of the items packed in watertight tin containers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Except that the mirror over the sink has been taken out and replaced by an oblong of tin, and the door has no lock, and there are no razors, of course. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Candy stuck in clumps in his coat pocket along with a tin of Frieda’s Egyptian Hair Pomade. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack Hodgson had brought along a paraffin tin filled with nitroglycerin; he had created a timing device that used the inside of a ball-point pen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Down on the beach, Jinny walked past the fire circle and the long wooden table and headed for Joon, who stood under the tin roof of the outdoor kitchen. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We explain that we are the guard and so know our way about, we get hold of the tinned stuff and exchange it for things we are short of. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice I’d found the pie tin in the trap empty but I hadn’t seen him anywhere nearby. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But I did not do anything but throw a tin cup of water on the log, so that I would have the cup empty to put whiskey in before 1 added water to it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But when the storm hit, that tin cup had saved her life. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He picked up one of the still-warm tortillas, swiped it through the open tin of lard, and sprinkled it with a spoonful of sugar from the sugar bowl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a hard red apple stamped out of tin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The window was open, my bed was made up with blankets and my things hung on the wall, the gas mask in an oblong tin can, the steel helmet on the same peg. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Bo reached out has hand and touched a small tin drummer on Barbarossa's desk. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she picked up the tin and cloth and began looking for the dish she’d brought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even his bicycle has been saved, and the tin ear trumpet, nearly two feet long, which poor deaf Konstantin used to hold up to his ear for his students to speak into. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood near the large tins of rice and could smell the cinnamon sticks which sat on a shelf right near my face. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All week Francie walked home slowly from school with her eyes in the gutter looking for tin foil from cigarette packages or chewing gum wrappers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel that the things I had in mind, such as the pseudo-elegant heap of tin in which we were riding, had any very great value. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z We are quite uppish and sniff at the tinned stuff in the supply dump, we want fresh vegetables. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t have been out of the running next to the liverwurst sandwiches, but then Lettie produced a tin with two cookies in it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In the corner of the room next to the dish cupboard, the boy filled Sounder’s tin with cold ham-boiling from the possum kettle. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse emptied another patient’s bedpan into a tin bucket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “And can we have some tin for the roof?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday night Mam will boil water on the stove and wash us in the great tin tub and Dad will dry us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They ate stale cornflakes and cold tinned tomatoes on toast for breakfast the next day. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z A gentle rain splattered the silo and played tiny pings against the tin roof. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The cane was put down and the Headmaster began filling his pipe from a tin of tobacco. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The coconut milk tin was dusty and overpriced. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There was a sheet of soft dulled tin foil over the contents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t even have the tin of 1080 I bought, which would look to the police like I had tried to hide the evidence. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Lourdes insisted that the tin man had left the eyes of a dozen sacrificed children under Felicia’s bed as an omen. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Second World War this same Oxo tin went to Singapore and back with my granddad. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As we were watching a flaming tin roof in flight, we heard screams and loud banging a few houses away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Cebolleta people salvaged lumber and tin from the shack, but they had no use for the barbed wire any more; the last bony cattle wandering the dry canyons had died in choking summer duststorms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I have each of your names in this tin, and I’ll pull two names at a time. The two names I pick will be partners.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “You got enough tin cans for the trip?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he puts a rag in one hand and a tin of wood polish in the other. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Jo’s desk up here was an old tin kitchen which hung against the wall. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z And then all that was left was that tin roof, halfway covering the gaping entrance of the silo. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Vik picks up the red tin and holds it in his palm. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The cycle was attached to a brightly painted tin cart with a leather bench and a decorated canopy that shaded customers from the sun. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z She tinned her board to fly away, but the machine lifted up into the air, passing right over her, and suddenly the wind was too great. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The fence was sheltered on three sides by a screen of scrap lumber and flattened tin cans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a run-down shack with a tin roof. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He kicked at me, his boot landing in my calf, like I was a tin can in the road that he might as well kick because it was there in front of him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I expected to see a grand building like the government offices in Umtata, but the Crown Mine offices were rusted tin shanties on the face of the mine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He cried because he had to wake up to what was left: the dim room, empty beds, and a March dust storm rattling the tin on the roof. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet the hope that we could start our own little fix-it shop and qualify as merchants steadily grew with the collection of coins in the tin can. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The day they buried her the wind blew gusts of sand past the house and rattled the loose tin on the roof. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Tally tinned to take one last look back. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He rolled down the car window and tossed the little yellow tin out into the rubble. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Then she sets them in the tin one by one. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “One dime for the Winter Help program,” they shouted as they went door-to-door, furiously rattling their tin cans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They will make their houses out of a piece of rusted tin or the side of a crate—and leave the writing part on the outside for all to see! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The tin roof was rusted in large patches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the empty avenues of this town, now whistling softly, kicking a tin can ahead of him in deepest concentration, came a tall, thin man. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A piece of old tin on the roof of the shed began to rattle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It is especially striking that Australia has some of the world’s richest iron and aluminum deposits, as well as rich reserves of copper, tin, lead, and zinc. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Papa plugged the holes in the walls with old newspapers and tin can tops. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a good thing Malcolm had plenty of money in his tin walrus. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Feverishly, the scavengers reach up into the sliding ooze to pluck out bits of plastic, wood, and tin. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In my imagination the doctor used the same corrugated sheets of tin that Dad used to roof hay sheds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Whether in a bottle, a tin can or a carton, water is unmistakably packaged. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Those were the sounds that played in my head at night now—the jingle of corrugated tin, the short tap of copper wire, the thunder of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He returned the comb to his pocket, stepped off the tins and put them back with the bottle and swab and broom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A kite string led from his pursed lips to the handle of a large tin bucket a few feet away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wake early, pick a few Labrador tea leaves and brew them in Bando’s tin cup. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he ate a whole tin of Cheddar cheese from a package of K rations. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Harold fished his tin of snuff from his back pocket and pinched off a piece. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then everyone around us is reaching their greedy fingers into the tin, taking out small round candies. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Frankie showing off the old service revolver he’d traded a filched pocket watch for, practicing on milk bottles and tin cans. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I got a drink and risked scoffing the last Penguin biscuit 'cause there was nothing else in the tin but Ginger Nuts and Lemon Puffs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He found a scattering of parched little houses, trailers setding into the sand, and shacks with rusty tin roofs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The dusty road passed in front of the church, then past Tenorio’s Bar and into the cluster of mud houses with rusted tin roofs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He checked every tin and jar of food, then emptied ’em on the pile of broke-up dishes; he used his boots to stomp every chair into kindling. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Squatting beside a blackened tin pot outside the woman’s hut, I ate burned rice, crispy and gooey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Homer unfolded a moth-eaten quilt for them to sit on and distributed their portions on tin plates. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “All kinds of words tonight. You know that fellow named Nomland who lives down the canal in the tin hut?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We finished quickly, buried our empty tins, and prepared to go. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, two carrot sticks, a mound of lime gelatin, a tin cup of milk, served on a cafeteria tiay. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z You remember how Mike became top male by using empty tin cans? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Daddy carries his with him and keeps them in that room, in that cookie tin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I walked to the back door, trying to remember how much money was in the tin box hidden under my bed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The chimney of the tin stove wouldn’t draw properly and it took him an hour to start a fire. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We lie on the tin roof and watch as five or six men turn the corner. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She focused on the biscuits, glucose tin, and glass of water on the side table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It consisted of a tin man mounted on a spinning top. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “This fear we are whipping up in our people. Bombs in women’s bras! Bombs in tins of baby milk! Saboteurs everywhere! Watch your children because they could be working for Nigeria!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This bunch were whispering excitedly, too, and he couldn’t see a single collecting tin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She reached for the tin of money they kept behind it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We share Danish cookies from the tin he keeps hidden in the toolshed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He'd swapped his old, flabby shape for that of a lion the size of a rhino, fangs the length of cutlasses, and claws that could tear through tanks as if they were tin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In another cupboard are a box of tea bags, Peek Freans shortbread biscuits, a five- pound bag of sugar that has not been poured into a bowl, a tin of evaporated milk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He inspected the tin and found the biscuits shaken to pieces but not damp, and the matches were safe as well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She snaps the lid shut before tossing the tin back into her purse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Then in a dazzling moment the black form of the spy-fly hurtled out of the tin and crashed hard into the monkey’s face. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I keep all my money in an old tin tea caddy with a picture of the desert on it, palm trees and camels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Billy lived with his dad in a house made of tar paper and corrugated tin, down the tracks from our house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Pudding's ice cream with tinned pears or ice cream with tinned peaches. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When Lommy and some others started to squeal, the old man tinned on them too. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And so Estha was Returned in a train with his tin trunk and his beige and pointy shoes rolled into his khaki holdall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maddie took the offered half sandwich—bully beef straight from the tin as usual. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z They ate a cold supper of cornbread and beans and franks from a tin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z In the days that follow they adjust once again to sleeping under a mosquito net, bathing by pouring tin cups of water over their heads. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These were designed to keep the new tin helmets from freezing to the head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In a hidden place in the garden, surrounded by bushes, we had our “camp,” where we could light a little fire and boil water in a tin can, balanced on rocks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Like to find me tin apple hanging way out on a branch, see if I can bring it down. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Rani clambers up the waterspout on the side of shop and onto the low tin roof. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Beowulf scampered to the toy box and returned with a tin soldier. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Just a card table, a mattress, and a single armchair in front of the television where he now sits, a tin of butter cookies in his lap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ancient Anasazi potsherds mingle in the sand with rusty tin cans discarded by tum- of-the-century stockmen, who grazed and watered their animals in the canyon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a furious buzzing came from it that the tin itself moved slowly over the wood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the light of a lantern, they saw half a dozen people, men and women and two children, sitting on the floor or on wooden boxes, eating from tin plates. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z O’Dell had delivered a thin aluminum sheet he’d found in the garbage, so I used some tin shears to cut some rough triangles out of it for fins. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought he might be right, especially since I’d already hidden keepsakes in the coffee tin. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A scrap of roofing tin propped up near the fire acted as a stove and baked the biscuits with its hot reflection. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Lodged in the corner was a small stove surrounded by a couple of pots and dirty tins. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Empty food tins would be pounded into palm-oil lamps, toys, plowshares maybe—who could say? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could cut your hand on a rusty tin.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Nico reaches into the tin Baba holds in front of him, takes a short stack of cookies, and puts them on a napkin in front of him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z All four of them gasped when they saw the scratches on the leather and the dents on the tin. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z When he saw me, he lowered the tin so I could step onto it, and I rode the stack up and onto the trailer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When I was a tiny girl, he would send me out to the bushes on the edge of our property with a small tin pail to collect them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Somewhere in that cookie tin was the truth, but I couldn’t see it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I cooked them on a top of a tin can, and as I ate them, smothered with blueberry jam, I knew that the land was just the place for a Gribley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy gestured at him with the tin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z My eyes followed the brown dusty path that continued down the hill to the thick forest, through which I caught a glimpse of the thatched and tin roofs of the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As he slipped his hands beneath the big tin bun, he heard through the light mist the grinding of an approaching streetcar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees tin they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A curtain of corrugated tin quivered as if something were behind it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z As they leave Havana, a brisk rain falls, rattling the tin bus. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I stuff the envelope in my housecoat pocket and put the tiara back in the cookie tin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z On one where I could see the muddy little tracks of the ringtails, I bored a hole, dropped in a piece of tin, and drove my nails. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the shelf, she grouped the baking powder, a box of salt, the mostly empty sack of flour, and the tin of lard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He listened, and then took the lid of a biscuit tin and deftly folded it into a small flat cylinder. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He shut the doors of the furnace and pulled the lever for coal; there was the same loud rattle of coal against the tin sides of the chute. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I dabbed candelilla wax on my lips from the small tin pot I had brought with us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I packed five salted game hens and three tins of foie gras with cornichons,” Horace said bitterly, “and this is what survives our shipwreck.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Inside each wooden box was another tin box. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Tayo heard the jingle of keys and the tin sound of a footlocker opening; the lock snapped shut and the old man came back and sat down; the hair was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “These are for you,” she says, handing Ashima a cellophane-wrapped basket full of tinned pates and jars of cornichons and chutneys that Gogol knows his parents will never open or enjoy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t count. Neither do the tinned beans. What are you most afraid of—what’s your number one fear?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Marly carried her tin cup carefully, reverently, and set it in a bank of snow. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z They lit a few improvised lamps made of tin cans filled with gasoline and a smoky wick. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His palace, as it were, consisted of two large Western-style houses with tin roofs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were little spots of raised-up white on the tin that were supposed to represent a joyous snowfall. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At the wharf, workers flashed their tin lunch buckets and grumbled for cigarettes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At Mr. Das’s workshop we listened to the rain beat steadily on the tin roof. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She stood with the steam coming out of the tin cup in her hand, sniffing at it as if she was a little bit suspicious. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He put down the brooch, reluctantly, and opened a drawer behind the counter, taking out a metal biscuit tin filled with envelopes and cards and slips of paper. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z As he and Wylan watched, the guard opened a tin of jurda and shoved a wad of the dried orange blossoms into his mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It's mostly tins of meat and potato hash I stole from an airship's cafeteria, and an old pair of shoes with intact soles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The guns arrived in narrow tin boxes and were packed in Cosmoline, a brownish substance the consistency of lard that had to be stripped away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They retreat into Frederick’s bedroom, which is populated with tin soldiers and model airplanes and wooden crates full of comic books. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We joined the line, filing past the beggars who shook their tin cups or waved their crude crutches and canes at us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What about issuing stickers printed with the words “This apostrophe is not necessary”? What about telling people to shin up ladders at dead of night with an apostrophe-shaped stencil and a tin of paint? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z She boils water on the stove and spends a day at a great tin tub washing our shirts and socks, diapers for the twins, our two sheets, our three towels. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He sits me down at the table and hands me his own tin cup of soup. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He watched him lick the lid of the tin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We found him behind his church, pondering his little stack of tin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I arrived by bus in Biloxi too late to find any Negroes about, so I walked inland and slept, half-freezing, in a tin- roofed shed with an open south front. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She could soak one in the tins of milk Dale left out. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Some of the band lay back from the fires, smoking and watching idly, talking softly among themselves; while others still ate, ladling the fragrant contents of a black iron pot onto tin plates. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They had for food a single tin of peaches but he made the boy eat it and he would not take any. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Some of them ate from tin plates, balanced on the knees, eating for the most part with their hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “The longer the war goes on,” Maddie said, carefully cutting her iced bun in half with a tin butter knife, “the older I’ll get.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I used the floor water to wash down the front steps and threw the last of it on the seeds I’d planted in coffee tins by the door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Everything he owned was in that bag—a change of clothes, the family photo album, his Matchbox cars, an old honey tin, and his camera, the old Minolta XE. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They started plunking it down in front of us in tin plates or bowls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She set the tin on the counter and led me to the table, where she had arranged the tea tray with sweets. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Under your seat there’s a tin,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z My frantic search uncovered a plethora of random objects—clothing, shoe brushes, buttonhooks, photographs of wives and sweethearts, tins of wax and pastes—things that seemed so ordinary, so human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His hand brushed the honey tin, and he paused. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He collapsed in a clatter of falling rifle, of mess tins rattling in the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Wish it had been toad for dinner, not tinned carrots, baked beans, and Heinz meatballs in gravy. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He finished the coffee in the tin cup and stood up. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He took a swig from the tin canteen James had given him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The professor produces a tin with a bow on it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She sat there and enjoyed the smell and the dark greenness of it.Oh, the mystery of a great tree, a prisoner in a tin wash bucket in a tenement front room! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Aymo had a basin of spaghetti with onions and tinned meat chopped up in it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Far down the street an old tin Ford was choking along, approaching, a last load of colored people in it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a bucket for a toilet and a tin washbasin. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The air was thick with the smoke from coal fires in tin braziers and stoves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “One ’em automatons, half pocket watch, half tin cup, and half growed man!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z It looked like a gigantic tin can that had been cut in half, lengthwise, and then pressed down into the ground. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She had taken that pail and rammed it till the man’s shoulders were almost squeezed up under the tin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She’d have muffin batter sitting in the fridge, and would pour it into tins and let you eat as many warm muffins as you wanted, before the rest of the island woke up. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The saw-like sickles had only lately been put away, and the wheat stood in stooks of eight among the tall stubble of those tin** The Wait still itched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They had ratproofed it by lining it with flattened tin cans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet their boat was hardly more than a little floating shack with a bright green tin roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to get up to use the tin can under my bed, which, to be on the safe side, has a rubber mat underneath in case of leaks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He brought home a dozen sheets of tin and some red paint. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I kept to the tar and tin, knowing that red tiles or grey slate made for treacherous footing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before him on a tray was a large tin plate divided into three triangles. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We shot tin cans out on the cornfield. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Naima heard the rattling sound of the tin bank they kept in the wardrobe. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Tiller passed around tin plates, which Sairy heaped with eggs and bacon and warm biscuits. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z At home we’ve rigged up a walkie-talkie with two tin cans and a piece of string, which runs between our two bedroom windows and doesn’t work very well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They fried it that night over their fire, thick slices of it, and put the slices to simmer with a tin of beans. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A boy had taken her tin horn and broken it in two across his knee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a simple adobe ranch house, squatting low to the good earth, its rusted tin roof shielding it from the hot sun. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed the skate wheels were rusted and the doll’s hair was dust filmed as though these things had waited there a long time like Little Boy Blue’s toy dog and tin soldier. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z So he’d stuck the book into his backpack, and it had come to rest against the old honey tin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In the larder they had found a great store of tinned foods. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Digger, and I used to shoot tin cans, so there was a lot of time for me to agonize over this. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z "He ain't no squire, look at him. I bet that's not even a real sword. I bet it's just some play sword made of tin." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Within seconds, the man behind the counter holds out two tin plates. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Most churches had steeples that appeared to be solid from the street, but a closer inspection would reveal a wooden framework covered with cleverly painted copper or tin. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great ton-load of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z This time was a direct hit, filling the tin almost to the brim, and she even managed to keep her feet on the landing. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He ripped away the tin, and a little girl flew at him with a hammer. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Until this point all Geyer knew about the children’s stay in Indianapolis was what he had read in the letters from the tin box. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I charged a tin of soup for a short jaunt, a full loaf of bread and a jar of pasta sauce for trip any longer than the immediate neighborhood. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The guard picked up a little tin watering can with daisies painted on it, which was kind of bizarre, because what he poured out wasn’t water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He brought back tin cups of water and put them on the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Grover trotted around with a full plate of tin cans and enchiladas, and his goblet was full of double espresso latte, which he kept muttering over like an incantation: “Pan! Pan!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like Ralph and Helen to leave Mona and Callie alone — Theresa found the girls tossing tin foil balls to the cats. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Throws some things together in a pot he heats on our hot plate and we eat quiet while our spoons bang the tin plates. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The conductor, a tiny man in a beaver hat and Prince Albert coat, was jumping up and down like a tin clown. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My Oxo tin's hidden under a loose floorboard where my bed was. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There was no door, merely four walls built of tin which did not meet at one corner, thus leaving enough space for one person at a time. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Because we had spent so much of our money on tin roofs and the voyage over, it had to be a poor man’s month in England. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I still have hopes that they’ll come up with a substitute, made of tin or copper or some such thing, to remind the neighborhood of the clock. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z First some guys roll in these big tin sheets. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He would loan them mess tins if they did not have them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z From the dining-room window where she stood, with the wind in her hair, Rahel could see the rain drum down on the rusted tin roof of what used to be their grandmother’s pickle factory. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Louis had not managed to find very much money for our expedition, so our possessions were few and simple—a knife, fork, and spoon each, a couple of tin plates and tin mugs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Not only are three tiny dragons peering out of the tin—Kavita is feeding them. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I eat everything, and when he sees how much I like them, he gives me his tinned pears. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He opened die trap on die raft to pull out the water keg and die tin containing the biscuits, the chocolate squares, and dry matches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You bet your shiny tin badge I do. This creep tried to blind me, too. Threw dirt in my eyes!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A roof of corrugated tin was supported in the front by a few wooden posts, and on the other three sides walls were formed by the tall boards of the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy put Sounder’s tin under the porch, closed the door, pushed the night latch, sat down behind the stove, and began to eat his supper. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husband, Frank Buck, a tin worker, had either bolted from home or died in an accident, leaving Emma to care for a young daughter, Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There his eye fell upon a fleet of large tin hot dogs mounted on bicycle tires. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We cram it all into a magnetized tin the size of an index card. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then a telephone buzzed, and while the nurse answered it, Lyra stooped quickly to recover the other tin, the one containing the spy-fly, and put it in the pouch with file alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It pounded on the tin roof of the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z On his head was a mock helm fashioned from an old tin bucket, with a rack of deer antlers strapped to the crown and hung with cowbells. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He peeled off the tin foil and drew the cork. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z They have a tin ear for its nuances of meaning and emphasis. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After dark she remained behind the tin door and did not come out for any reason. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They still had the tin roofs out over the sidewalk, and hitching rails. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Dismounting at Rael’s, he bought some cigarettes and a tin of snuff, then crossed to the Frontier Bar, which was almost deserted, very quiet, and dark. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the Underdowns’ home in Léopoldville with its Persian rugs and silver tea service and chocolate cookies, surrounded by miles of tin shanties and hunger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So I tiptoed back to where I’d found the tin and put it on the shelf again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He rinsed the empty tin with water and gave it to the child to drink and that was that. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He remembered a cell with a plank bed, a sort of shelf sticking out from the wall, and a tin washbasin, and meals of hot soup and bread and sometimes coffee. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She slipped her hand slowly into her furs till she was sure the alethiometer was still there, and then carefully withdrew the spy-fly tin and slipped it down into her fur boot. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She ran her tongue over her lips and looked at the sleeping tin soldier. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I marched toward a mound that looked like it had lots of glass and tin. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She wanted to throw her arms around it and plant kisses on the leather, tin, and tassels. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z The powerful high beams picked up sprays of broken glass in the street, as well as nails, shards of metal, old hubcaps, tin cans, a flattened pair of men’s underpants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The boy took the tin and handed it to the old man. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The rain started again just after noon, and I sat under a dense pine nursing my last tin of meal replacement, the last-resort tin with the expiry dated for the previous year. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He unlaces his boots and folds his trousers in the dark and sets the tin of biscuits on top. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Carved from olivewood, a little bigger than a shoe box, it had a tin lid perforated by tiny airholes and inset with the icon of an unrecognizable saint. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once he reaches in and gets hold of that tin, he’s caught, because he will never open his paw.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m in the kitchen, greasing muffin tins for my mother. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Four empty tin plates were on the floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The Christmas tin was still in my lap. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The garage door was open, and inside Naomi could see shelves with cans of food and tin signs advertising Lucky Strikes and Chesterfields. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For one German army loaf there are fifty tins of canned beef over there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z This fifth-floor apartment is indeed nicer than the second-floor one—the ceilings high and decorated with punched tin and stucco flourishes: fruits, flowers, banana leaves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “It must be very disagreeable to sleep in a tent, and eat all sorts of bad-tasting things, and drink out of a tin mug,” sighed Amy. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie was staring at the place where the tin soldier had been. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “They don’t want to stay inside that horrible little tin.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Turning, they ran to the front of the building, lined up in two long lines, and marching like little tin soldiers disappeared inside the school. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Setting the drinks down on a white tin table, she joined her husband in the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing else was said for the next hour, till we came around the last stand of trees and to tin rise above Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet they’re small enough to fit inside Ma’s empty mint tin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z In Hooverville tin roofs cartwheeled across the sky and shanties were simply shredded, leaving their denizens standing dazed among the wreckage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The cookies were in a red Christmas tin with a green wreath on it. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I stooped over and picked it up in order to inspect the empty tin cylinder for a communication of some sort, but only a viscous residue of concentrated juice trickled out on my hand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the supermarket I can feed a cat thirty-two dinners from one of thirty-two tins, but I can never find a single fish I like, never a single.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She devoted herself to the kitchen after that, preparing meals that she spooned into plastic containers and the tins usually reserved for Christmas cookies. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z On the floor was a tin washbowl full of ashes and a few pictures disappearing into flames. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When she left, I lay on the empty cot while rain crashed on the tin roof. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They slink about our camp and pick over the garbage tins. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The tin soldier was still asleep, with his head sunk on his chest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Or leftover macaroni,” Dad grumbled, and I heard his fork peck at his plate like the turkeys pecking at feed in their tin bowls. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A small village spreads out before her—ALTAMIRA, say the rippling letters on the corrugated tin roof of the first house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Johnny came out with a fishing pole and a rusty tin can filled with worms in mud. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a device I wanted to try, and put some hickory sticks in a tin can and set it to boiling while I fixed dinner. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the biscuit tin slowly back into the cupboard. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Just then the old tin Ford drove up and Silly climbed in and the door slammed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the tin of dominoes, blind anger rising suddenly from my toes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The honey tin lay at the bottom of the backpack, a permanent fixture. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He stood by the door of our clay brick and tin roof house laughing and then asked, “Can you even understand what you are saying?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z "Bring me . . . egg . . . dragon's egg . . . please . . ." Her lashes tinned to lead, and she was too weary to hold them up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Each day we put a little money away in our old tin can. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a biscuit tin next to him, and from the tin he pulled what looked like a crayon the size of a small candle. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z What’s in my future—a tin of kerosene poured down my throat and a match held to my lips? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “There’s some fresh divinity in the tin by the sofa. Help yourself.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Its facade was almost invulnerable, covered as it was with tin advertising posters for a variety of beers and cigarettes and soft drinks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I find an old tin of maple syrup, the lid rusted shut, but when Stephen and I get it open the syrup is moldy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They seemed lost in their own little world of mud, pebbles and tins, and oblivious to my suicide attempt. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The tin box was buried in the soft dirt beneath the tree, shallow enough that I could dig it up with my hands. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A tray held giant tins of dried milk and Boumvita, near a study table with a reading lamp, bottles of medicine, books. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Just as she decided to return to the attic and search for a hidden door, Kendra noticed Dale coming from the direction of the barn with another pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z To his mother’s dismay, Jericho came over every Thanksgiving bearing a tin of turnip mash. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He chewed down his carrot sticks and what remained of his sandwich, then poured out the tin cup of milk and filled it twice with water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He dug the onions for it while I got it boiling in a tin can. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There, clamped firmly in it, was the bright piece of tin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I used an ice cream scoop to drop small amounts of each color batter into each cupcake tin, and then we used toothpicks to swirl the batter around a little. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The nurse walks around us and out the back door carrying a white tin box. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She had whipped cream, scooped tiny cakes from the baking tin, made ravioli, and stirred sauces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a warm night and he wandered for a long time in the alleys behind the houses, where the dogs barked when he reached into the tin cans. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The leaves we kick aside clatter like tin cans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Discarded tin cans are easy: they end up reused as containers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The room is silent except for the clock ticking on the mantel, the sound of sweeping and the clink of china pieces as my father drops them in the metal trash tin. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, though, he couldn’t get that tin of red paint out of his mind, and he thought he’d paddle along to the chandlery in Jericho, just to get an idea of the price. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I realized then that the Ryan Dean West Pie Chart of Brain Activity was an empty tin. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Nina offered her a tin cup full of cold water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Bucklin was bending over him with a tin cup of coffee in his hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran inside the house and got the pie tin of table scraps I’d been saving. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Roberts rummaged around in a tin for some change. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Ducking aerodynamically over my handlebars, I pedaled furiously into the thick, oily exhaust of the moving column . . . . . . while, back on Pingree Street, Milton is crouching behind the crenellated olive oil tins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For the first time, it occurred to Naomi that a tin like this could have saved her mother. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside rested the rusty old honey tin, three new Barbies, and a box of extra fancy chocolates. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I realized I had not wrapped the tin of FTGFOP1 First Flush Darjeeling or anything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Berosty took up the great table of red stone as if it had been a sheet of tin and brought it down on Herbor’s head. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The water then came to a drop-off, where it waterfalled one story down to a rounded piece of tin that Jessie had found on the curb coming home from school one day. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Aw, shah!” she snapped, jabbing a cone-shaped tin cemetery urn into the ground for the jonquils we brought. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Thank you so much,” Ignatius replied and wheeled the big tin hot dog out onto the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The man took the tin from him and slung it into the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I picked up the Band-Aid tin and looked through all of the toilet paper for a note, but there was nothing. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They watched it bubble slowly in the coals and he retrieved the tin with the pliers and they ate in silence. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And now in my mind I stood upon the walk looking out across the hole past a Hooverville shanty of packing cases and bent tin signs, to a railroad yard that lay beyond. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain thrummed the tin roof while we talked and ate and shared our afternoon plans, preparing ourselves for Great-great-aunt Florentine’s funeral. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Empty beer cans and whiskey bottles and a few half-eaten tins of Vienna sausages littered the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We ran the warmer and caught the wax in a tin tub, then loaded the frames into the extractor and filtered the honey through brand-new nylon hose. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She ended up with a weed digger and another pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z An iridescent hummingbird hung suspended over the pie tin, wings a faint blur. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Next Foremole rummaged in his kit and came up with a tin of grease and a strong thin bar, one end of which was flattened like a spatula. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Weeds grew out of the tennis court; the tile roof of the house was patched with sheets of tin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Penelope had brought three tin cups from the kitchen and poured each full of milk to wash down the cakes. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I sank down onto a tall tin can of King Biscuit flour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I suck up my courage and ask, “What did you put inside that tin?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Jenny was at his shoulder then, pouring more milk into the tin cup beside his plate, resting her hand firmly on his arm. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin- roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z At once, into the empty tin pails, the sap began to go plop! plop! plop! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He dropped them into a woman's tin cup. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Instead, there was a giant urn in the middle of the table and a five-pound tin of peanut butter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “You tell Cordelia there’s a cookie for you girls, in the tin.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I listened to the rain ping the tin roof. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z One by one, they dropped into a tin can with a dull plink, and the surgeon then began sewing up the wound. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Amid tins of talc and boxes of bobby pins she would curl up on the floor of the storage room, speaking in non sequiturs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I found a tin of cornstarch and shook some into a teacup, added a little water, and made it into a paste. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve only got tinned milk,” he said to Call while returning to the kitchen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Twill finds two tin cups in her pack and I dip out the tea, setting it on the floor to cool. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They had given him a bath, and they allowed him to wash himself fairly frequently in a tin basin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Will lit the little tin lantern he’d taken from his father’s pack, using the dry matches that he’d found with it, and crouched in the lee of the rock to open Lyra’s rucksack. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Ferro leaned back in his chair, his hands clasped behind his head, and listened while I made my request for tin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I do my part by placing a tin of buttery biscuits in front of our mother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Children ran out of the flats with folded newspapers and empty Boumvita tins. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z A rusty tin pipe ran from the corner of the roof down to the cistern where the children were playing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When he brought in the tin I knew straight away what it was, and Miss E. had to throw a jug of water in my face to stop my hysterics. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At the party, at the corrugated tin shack of Maria Isabel’s cousin, Jasmin eats chicken, tries to blow up a red balloon, and borrows a pink bike with training wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A rusted tin sand pail was being lowered, and once it reached her, the window upstairs shut. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I’d noticed a big hornet’s nest in the privy, just under the tin roof, so I bided my time behind a tree till I saw him go in there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Its rounding metal blades slice the edges of the tin to the right size and shape, while the letter and number forms punch the license number into the center. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When the pipe froze like that, we got our water by melting snow or icicles in the tin pan on the potbellied stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The lamp with the tin reflector hung over the table. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He had lost his tin helm with its antlers and bells. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I also walked around beating a piece of tin with a stick. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she tinned back around and started to sing a song that was about trailers being for sale or rent. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It was not long before the level of milk in the pie tin had markedly fallen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Where I hid my Omega is a work of genius and second in security only to my Oxo tin under the loose floorboard. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z With one sudden swipe, I send the tin flying away from us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z On the table a few things that had been left: a cup, a tin plate, a candle in a stand. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Grover grabbed a tin can from his snack bag and prepared to throw it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He carried it over to a table, opened it, and quickly skimmed through it, wondering why a history of Cornish tin should have been of interest to Ian Rider. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z A large cookie tin that says “Royal Dansk” stares back at me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “The ends of the nails will enter the hole about halfway between the top and the piece of tin,” he continued. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The same Patrice Lumumba, mind you, who washed his face each morning from a dented tin bowl, relieved himself in a carefully chosen bush, and went out to seek the faces of his nation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat in her kitchen, sipping coffee from blue enamel tin cups. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We still have some sugar cookies in a round tin, which Hannah immediately pries open. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I grabbed a tin bucket next and, letting out a grunt, threw it with so much force it left a dent in the wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Viola had calmed down, and the blood was flowing freely, Kendra cast aside the pie tin and retrieved the silver bowl. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When I got to Howard’s, he and Dwight and Cotton were in the front yard playing some game that involved throwing tin cans and punching each other. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I’d placed her things inside the tin box and buried it out there late one night by flashlight, too scared to leave them hanging around in my room, even in the back of a drawer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Finish it, Gogol. At your age I ate tin.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Nails were popping off tin roofs, and they flew, landing on nearby thatched roofs, increasing the wrath of the fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Queenie stayed in the kitchen, thoughtfully lapping up the last drops of warm cream with a tin spoon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He pulled out the large jar of Hippie Queen Honey, the cookie tin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Toward the back of the building are two large tables of boys and girls, all Negroes, hungrily shoveling food off tin plates. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It appeared that one of the stalls had been selling tin saucepans. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I clumb up in the chair and the barber tilted the whole thing backward, having me looking up at the tin ceiling of his shop. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z They sold all kinds of boat-related stuff in the chandlery, including red paint, of which he bought a small tin and a fine brush to go with it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He sorted through the cans and went back and they sat by the fire and ate the last of their crackers and a tin of sausage. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When it rains the tires hiss on the street and when there’s a real rain with the wind blowing sometimes you can hear it against the tin sign over Billy’s bicycle shop. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Donay, squatting, adjusts our tin can of rice, which hangs over the fire on a piece of wire. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I'll give you a sheet of tin and a bundle of copper wire if you can fix it.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I take one last look back at my old home, the flat tin roof flashing in the afternoon sunlight, the column of smoke fading and drifting away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The brave tin soldier in his little paper boat—she imagined him suddenly appearing beside the fruit basket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The old man looked down at the tin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z My husband, seated already on the bullock cart with the tin trunk full of cooking vessels and my saris next to him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he puts the tin back inside his coat and looks at Werner. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He handed me a flattened tin can that he’d probably been saving in his pocket for a thousand miles. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z On New Year’s Eve, as a matter of tradition, she’d buy a special hors d’oeuvre basket, the kind that came filled with blocks of cheese, smoked oysters in a tin, and different kinds of salami. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Lee carried a tin lantern to light the way, for it was one of those clear early winter nights when the sky riots with stars and the earth seems doubly dark because of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The place was packed with lopsided row houses patched with tin sheets and scrap wood and cardboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She handed the parcel to Mrs. Lawrence, who opened it immediately and pulled from the wrapping a tin plate upon which Emeline had painted a lovely forest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My sisters gave us an elegant lunch—meaning our meat came from a tin instead of the slaughter shed—on a clean tablecloth in the apartment they shared three stories above the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Dad was in the forklift, scooping up a stack of corrugated tin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Tristran blinked and reached into the tin bowl and took out a large mushroom between finger and thumb. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He’d had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He closed the tin and put it back on the shelf. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Olanna moved closer to Amala, but she was unsure what she wanted to say and so she picked up the tin of glucose, examined it, and placed it back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “You will drink fresh milk from a bottle. No more stunted tins of condensed milk, no more homemade soybean milk,” I said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In those days before the crash, Abuelito and Abuelita had had a nice house, but they still took their baths in a galvanized tin tub. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So many tins of anchovies, so much chainsaw snoring, so many tender offerings of water bottles and clean socks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A soft knock at the door behind her tinned Arya away from the window and her dreams of escape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But he’s left me a present beside the sugar tin, where the picture of an SS officer once sat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The night before September i, when my brothers began school, Mother bathed us all in a wide tin tub the way she did once every week. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Most of them won’t be able to stand up, there’s going to be no privacy, and beneath the summer sun and the tin roof, it’s hot as the devil’s stove up here. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Lifting the tops off the boxes, she peered inside, swinging a tin bucket of smoke back and forth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured some coffee into a tin cup and sat down. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Held a tin cup of water to Pinch’s lips. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Abandoning the tin of milk, she walked around to the opposite side of the house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I located wood and piled it around the base of the palm tree that held our water keg and the tin box. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I put the tin on the floor, so I could peel away the sheets of tissue. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He wrapped the tin in a flannel cloth to stifle the incessant buzzing and droning, and stowed it away under his bunk. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Queenie produced, as if by magic, a tin of twenty-five Player’s from deep in the pockets of her greatcoat. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Next week their relatives were spinning new webs in the corners and between the legs of the tin stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The fruitcake stayed perfect in the tin and the apple juice was fizzy but not totally undrinkable and the dried apricots were fine, as was the huge thick slab of chocolate wrapped in brown paper. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I let these children take the milk themselves, it will not last a week,” she said, before taking the tin of Carnation dried milk back to the safety of her room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Hot tears filled my eyes and my words sputtered out all angry and sad, like water sizzling on a hot tin pan. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z After we ate, Timothy carefully cleaned his knife and put it into the tin box, which he lashed high on the same tree that held our water keg. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tin box half full of tea bags in the pantry—my mother’s, not exactly fresh, but they smelled all right. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Eighty tins of pure ghee were poured over the elephant to feed the fire. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys stopped to look for tin foil in the gutter and to pick up cigarette butts which they would save and smoke in the cellar on the next rainy afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a picture of her once, and he had carried the tin frame to bed with him at night, and whispered to it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t have our tea break after the first week because tin was becoming scarce and the Captain was short on canned milk. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The honey tin skidded to a halt next to the three-legged coffee table. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He slipped into the living room early in the morning to get what he needed from the tin of Booker money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On the grass behind the hedge rested a large pie tin full of milk. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We often dip into it, and the tough ham sausages, the tins of liver sausages, the conserves, the boxes of cigarettes rejoice our hearts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She opens the tin and takes out one round candy. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z China stuck the hot curlers into a tin of Nu Nile hair dressing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Its sides were of tin, with places cut in them for the candle-light to shine through. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He steadied it on his palm and thought back to the battered cookie tin he’d found at his grandfather’s, the one with its heap of soldiers guarding the surprising photo. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Pima distributed metal tins to the adults, rice and red beans and ground sausage spiced. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They were led into another white room, this one equipped with tin tubs and hoses. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the back yard With three red Chickens, the goat With a tin can For a bell drinks From a rain puddle. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A tin can on the counter, lid open. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This assortment scrabbled unhappily against the tin of the lunch bucket. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z That night they camped in a ravine and built a fire against a small stone bluff and ate their last tin of food. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z In a small fold of hide were two dozen rolled tin lids. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Just as the sun dropped below the western ridges, O’Dell dropped off our tin at the Cape beside the lumber and the nails. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So Tjaden has rigged up the lid of a boot-polish tin with a piece of wire over the lighted stump of a candle. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In a tin bowl, in the captains lap, steams a cylinder of boiled gray meat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So I made rabbit soup in a tin can I found at the bottom of the gorge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere he looked there were buckets of loose metal bits, tiny motors, gears, springs, nuts, bolts, and brightly colored tin. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z All we had for dinner was what he’d been able to scrounge out of the garbage: a tin of some yellow-green slop, two rotting bananas, and some moldy rods. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I could go up onto the roof, but the corrugated tin burned my feet. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z A glass jug, two tumblers and a piece of cloth stood on the old tin table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A tin roof of a building hung from the branches by electric wires and the wind swung it back and forth like a mighty ax. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A Christmas tree stood in the corner, its tin star brushing the ceiling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He was tinning his whole attention to physical activity so that he might not notice the nagging uneasiness beginning to force its way into the conscious part of his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I like it when it rains because the soft pitter-patter on the tin roof is soothing, but it never lasts more than a few minutes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So was the second, but in the third he found something valuable: a mess tin and a box of matches. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The children of these families wouldn’t look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “The best thing is bright shiny tin. Cut out some little round pieces, a little smaller than this bit. Do you understand?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached into his shirt pocket for the small tin of lotus-oil balm he carried with him at all times, and applied it to three spots on his forehead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He went to King City and studied a flush toilet and then built one of craftily bent tin and carved wood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Slim hurried out, and in a moment returned with a tin cup of water. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The second thing I notice is that the familiar red mint tin is on her lap—and it’s open! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z When we noticed this a second morning as well, we knocked on Bibi’s tin door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z One of the men ran into the ship and brought forth food tins which were opened and dished out without much noise. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Singer brought out from the closet the tin box in which he kept crackers and fruit and cheese. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The end of the trestle was only a few feet away, and I was like a windup tin man with four legs spinning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She moved her fingers quickly down the stack, stopping to tap a corner of tin about halfway up from the ground. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” I said and handed back the tin pail. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z My serving is about half that of the white man in front of me, my plate hammered tin instead of the stoneware. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was more or less like this: “I don’t want glory, but please can you save our honesty? And if you will heal tins knight for the knight’s sake, please do.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry stood staring after her, the tin of High-Finish Polish still clutched in his hands. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet in back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They hit the flying aku down with the newspapers and then bent to pick them up and put them in the tins. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z We got to the last four or five tin can plates and Deza said, “You ever kiss a girl at the orphanage?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The old man fitted the tins into his knapsack and fastened the straps. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The blue tin lake sparkled in the midday sunshine. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z They leaned the tin against the crumbly gray sides of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Slowly his eyes tinned toward the gate, barely visible in the shadows of the wall. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I open the tin, ready to steal a few of the butter-flavored ones, praying Daddy won’t notice any are gone, praying he won’t realize I broke in here in the first place. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z An old tin petty cash box was hidden under a removable floorboard beneath her bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She took us over to one of the big pots and filled up our tin plates. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z And after Finn had eaten more honey clusters than was lawful in the state of Illinois, Mel packed an extra tin for Sean, along with a large jar of honey, in a brown shopping bag. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was almost full dark, and my tooth hurt and my ankle throbbed and I’d spilled what was left of the tin on the ground beside my legs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, kitchen page, and I shall go tins minute. Good gracious, don’t look so tragic about it. Leave it to the practised scoundrel and run away to bed.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The old satyr clapped his hands, and a bunch of nymphs melted out of the trees with platters of vegetables, fruits, tin cans, and other goat delicacies. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Ishtar took out the tin and handed it over to Belet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In the wild chase around the building the biggest dog struck the tin drainpipe, and it clattered down the wall and bounced on the cement top of the cistern. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He set the empty tin between his feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A tin choirboy hitting a high note, his mouth a perfect O. A wooden family of jolly snowmen. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Her small fingers pulled an old honey tin out from near the roots of the tree, and she sat back with a tremendous grin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They make their homes out of sticks or tin or anything in the world they can find. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I take out the envelope with the photograph, set it safely on the sugar tin, and hang my sopping coat beside the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Two bobwhites scooted across the tracks right in front of us, heads up and backs straight as tin soldiers’, but they flushed before T.R. could point. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He served me tea and Call some of his precious tinned milk, and then, very gently, he tried to explain to us what he believed had to be done. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting ’round a desk that was covered with newspapers and a cut-in-half tin can fulled up with cigar butts was two men. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She saw them some evenings sitting under a maple tree eating rice and fish off of tin plates. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Then I rowed and listened to the oarlocks and the dip and scrape of the bailing tin under the stern seat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The Egyptians,” he added, and by tin* he meant the gypsies, "are fond of them for eating, too." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Like, I bet this nickel I can throw it in that old tin can over there. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She hummed what she recalled of Verdi and bumped her elbow on an old pie tin pretending it was a tambourine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z A clock that didn’t work, a flowered tin wastepaper basket. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa, as usual, was not at tin- table; he always had his meals in his room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I raised the tin up higher so that it was in front of my heart like a shield. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Still others were made of tin and cardboard and sacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The thoroughfare onto which I tinned seemed innocuous enough at first, but after a time I noticed that each block was a bit more dismal-looking than the last. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z In an instant, sheets of water crash on the tin roofs of the clubhouse and flood across lawns and cement. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The halls were kind of dim and the tin on the stairs rattled as we went up, Peaches going first and me behind her. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls were lined with bookcases filled with antique games, tin toys, and card games. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Sure was nice meeting you all. Listen, Naomi, you mind getting my blueberry pie tin when the picnic’s all over? It’s on a red dishcloth. Has a Clabber Girl stamp on the inside.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Did I miss the dinner call?” he asked, scanning the empty tin of rice on the table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We each were given a party cracker to pull, inside of which was a paper crown, a noise-maker, and a miniature tin toy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I peek into the bag at my feet: a paper cutter, white card stock, and a tin of forty-eight colored pencils, twelve more than the set I have. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “You get out a here before I kill you,” I hear, like it’s in a tin can. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He remembered remarking to the pathologist, as he cut up the little pink chunk of mystery meat in the tin foil, “Good thing this ain’t Marburg. ” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve got the water ready to heat, and then I fish a tin out of my sack. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I squeeze my eyes shut and listen as Ma rummages in the box before snapping the tin shut. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z There was plenty of room now for every one to sit on the seat, and the Basque who had been lying on the tin roof now sat between us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He held up the bundle of copper wire and stack of tin. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z High-Tech nudged Ugwu at night and held out a tin of sardines. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Seeing our state, the old man walked over to a well, unhooked a tin pail, and dropped it carefully down into the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It pinged on the shed’s tin roof like someone was beating on it with drumsticks. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Multicolored candles of all sizes surround bags of tiny flowers and ground herbs, a ceramic goblet, and a tin bowl. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z On the back porch, she picked up the tin dipper that floated in the well bucket and started to drink. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “If you get hungry, have some crackers from the tin.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I see Sourmelina, heating up a tin of wax on the stove. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The little stove was roaring; it was redhot, and the chocolate in the tin sizzled and sputtered. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z At the side of the building two children were sloshing water out of a tin pail near a hand pump. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The aisles are narrow, and the shelves are full of so many cans, boxes, tins, and jars. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Gas mask, tin hat, ration coupons, and an umbrella. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Soft colors of rusted tin and old boards, twists of smoke rising from cook fires. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex saw the ruins of buildings, half-crumbling chimneys, and rusting metal wheels and knew that he was looking at an old tin mine. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I carried a little tin trunk up there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The plane climbed over belts of forest and clusters of round huts and villages with tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She located a large pie tin, the kind Dale used to leave milk around the yard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Never you mind what’s inside that tin!” she says in a huff. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z At the third sentence the tin soldier sat bolt upright. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “They sounded sad, so I opened the tin and gave them some of my snack.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z He was sitting on an old tin bucket turned upside down by the doorway to his hogan. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A couple of boys would put a tin can on the car track and sit along the curb and watch with a professional eye as the trolley wheels flattened the can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He went into the cupboard and opened a new packet of biscuits and began to transfer them, one by one, into the square, red tin. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z People up there bought so many of her candles and jars of honey she couldn’t keep up with it, and there were tins of Black Madonna All-Purpose Beeswax for her special customers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then somebody grab me by the elbow and push me inside a tin shed. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The tin was magic; it vibrated and produced a different sound depending on what angle the water hit it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Instead I tasted and smelled the acridness of tin plates and cups designed for tea parties that bored me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z On the same rock, the nuts were cracked after they had dried for several weeks in a tin box under the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He would say, “Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floors, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Shay put her hands in her pockets and spread her arms, tinning her dorm’s team jacket into a sail. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Working with a round tin of metal polish, they waxed a dim gloss on the dull zinc pipe rising from the cement on his groin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The deer-hide door grew stiff with ice as darkness came, and it rattled like a piece of tin when the wind hit it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought home some more tin and left the designing up to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The girl crawls into the wardrobe and climbs a ladder and comes back down clutching a dented tin can. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Coeds on summer break grabbed tin cans and began going door-to-door in their neighborhoods. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I heard the creaking of the tin roof heating under the sun. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He plowed his fingers through the heap of plastic soldiers in the battered cookie tin—identical except for their poses: standing, kneeling, and prone, all with rifles pressed hard to their olive-green cheeks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He saw sugar mill smokestacks and homes where people put day-old tortillas on their tin roofs to dry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One artist offered a giant bright installation titled “Underground Springs” made from tin cans roped together, painted flashing purple and silver, spilling forth from a map of Israel on the wall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After that experience Stuart contented himself with the tiny coins which his father made for him out of tin foil. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Grady and I sat at a battered wooden table, each facing a burger on a dented tin plate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I shove the peda in my mouth and then dump all three dragons from the tin into the little bag. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z She’d taken a small tin of tar, and as Celaena rose from her crouch in the windowsill, her sticky, black hands and bare feet easily gripped the stone wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The boy scooped up a tin pail of nuts from the big box under the stove and went out to the flat cracking stone. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t see how it will fit, but the butterfly perches on Ma’s hand and instantly shrinks so that it can settle inside the small tin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It had been years, but I could picture the tin of dog treats on a shelf next to a stack of cookbooks. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They’re so tiny that they must have had plenty of room inside Ma’s mint tin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z We had to haul all our empty tin cans and other trash at night out into a hidden place in the woods quite far from the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She tinned sideways, into her water dancer's stance, but the Bull did not move. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He watched her lay out and arrange the pieces of jagged metal from a tin: her shrapnel collection. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a bowl of tinned peaches and ice cream to follow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z We moved my bed to Grandfather’s chamber and replaced it with the tin bathing tub. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most kind, sir,” said Lee, and carried out the wooden bench himself while Grumman went to the stove and poured the scalding drink into two tin cups. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she blows the minty white dust out of the empty tin and tells me to turn around. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Ugwu stole some of the milk and sugar that Master brought home from the directorate and put them in old tins and gave them to her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she took the tin soldier and clambered up to her bed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z On the loading dock, under a gray tin roof, women sort red and green tomatoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The boy tipped his head towards the rusting tin on the roof as he prepared to recite his lines. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But the coffee tin was not on the shelf where I’d left it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The photography books went flying out first, followed by his pencil case and the honey tin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In a flash, done so quickly that she did not realize it until afterward, the one wearing a blue beret grasped her basket, took the tin of corned beef, and ran off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t even turn the ignition off—the engine was still gasping as we pried up the side panel of the bonnet with the tin opener on Etienne’s Swiss knife. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z My school had only a small building, which was made of mud bricks and a tin roof. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z On Sundays he spends an hour occupied with his tins of shoe polishes and his three pairs of shoes, two black and one brown. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A tin gallon can has been cut in half, the lip ragged and dangerous. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “But why did we come back to Afghanistan, then?” asked Mariam, her sticky fingers drumming against the table, the honey tin forgotten. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I stuffed the tin can in my back pocket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The family home in the north—Briony imagined streets of blackened mills, and grim men trudging to work with sandwiches in tin boxes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He rubbed a tin harmonica across his knee. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I rubbed down the horses at night and rattled the sheet of tin backstage when we needed thunder onstage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was a rustle in the yard, like pieces of tin scraping the moist dirt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Behind the plants lay a large pie tin full of milk where a crowd of hummingbirds were feeding. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then they went into the night, their way home lighted by the chieftain John carrying a tin kerosene lantern. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Miig crushed the tins as small as they could go so we could bury them along with our other minimal garbage by the latrine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He grabbed his tin of weed, settled himself on the couch and started rolling. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Two hundred yards farther on, they came to the Yambuku Mission Hospital, a complex of low, whitewashed buildings made of concrete, with corrugated tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It took us two days: chopping candied fruit, mixing the cake by hand, and lining cake tins with cut-up brown paper bags. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The entire school was there, including those who took classes in the tin shacks by the river. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As they fell silent, Stella heard rain plinking steadily on the tin roof of the building. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Lourdes took advantage of their confinement to tell Felicia how the shriveled tin peddler, who rattled by with his trolley at noon, abducted children to caves with flapping bats that nested in human hair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Singer brought from his closet a tin box that contained a loaf of bread, some oranges, and cheese. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And after them came a line of black girls, old, fat, dressed in ragged gingham, walking loosely, carrying tin cans of soap powder, rags, mops, brooms ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d sit up half the night expecting the Klan to come riding past the store in those tin lizzie Model A cars and what would I do if they did? The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know that comes ready-made in a tin,” she points out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She’d let me look at the black powder in its round tin, but say, “Don’t tell your mama, now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “And isn’t it kind of expensive, carting all this tin across the world to Ethiopia?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We tried to stock up on a few extra tins of food. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She bought oil lamps made from milk tins. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He went back to the raft, took out the keg of water and the tin of biscuits and chocolate. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They dragged the people out of their shelters—and they pulled the pieces of tin and cardboard down. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The flickering images were a far cry from Lourdes’s childhood home: a two-room shack made of wooden slats, its flimsy tin roof weighted down with rocks, the only bathroom a clump of bushes outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In deep shadow, set well back from the water’s edge, was a white-painted tin table with a pitcher of iced punch under a square of cheesecloth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But would ye no gie us a loan o’ your hob to heat our wee tin o’ beans before we go?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I watched her over the rim of tin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mama stirred the soup in the kettle, heated it through, and brought some to Nokomis in the tin bowl, with the trader’s spoon. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The students shriek with disgust at the sight of a tin pan hanging from the bottom of a wooden chair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Fill the pie tin with water so’s he’ll have something to drink. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But he gathered up their blankets and their tin of biscuits and held out the wooden box. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I shoveled tea from the bright orange tin into the filter basket, topped it with two scoops of rock sugar, and tucked it under the spigot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Then she opens her purse and takes out the red mint tin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Then he puts water in the kettle and takes out the tin of tea leaves for making chai, instead of going back to the couch. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The tin soldier said nothing in reply to that either. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ignatius breathed pitifully, bumping the tin hot dog over the low cement sill of the garage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Somewhere out there. Very good indeed. And you’ll get the tin soldier back. Who was it who said that all's for the best in this best of all possible worlds?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z One afternoon after school I was sitting on a tin chair near the window doing homework when I heard a medley of voices shouting out in the streets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain pounded louder on the tin roof, and she looked up from the note then, at the screen door and the cottonwood tree outside, its leaves beaten flat by the downpour. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “My blood goes back fifty generations, older than tree or stone. And I am come to this,” he put his head against the palms of his hands and looked down at his tin tray. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was carrying a candle in a tin candlestick. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Want to lick the bowl?” she asked after she poured the batter into the muffin tin. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The Captain brought in the black tea and the tin of milk, which he had neatly poked open with an ice pick—two holes on one side, one on the other. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Children in baggy clothes played a game involving sticks, balls, and large tin cans. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They ate the little mushrooms together with the beans and drank tea and had tinned pears for their dessert. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When I was ten, Daddy tried to install one in the tin kitchen ceiling without asking Constantine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Far down the road the sun glared cruelly against a tin sign nailed to a barn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed the pie tin way back up into the corner of the trap and said, “Okay, now all we have to do is wait.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In the store we collect ladies’ lightly used stockings for use in parachutes and ropes, and tin and steel for scrap and metal drives. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There were pegs along the walls for clothes, and a sheet of tin nailed to the wall served as a crude mirror. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Olanna looked down at the long red tin and nearly burst out laughing from sheer unexpected pleasure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She moved around like a tin soldier, her legs stiff, trying in vain to grab the rope with her teeth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out the circles of tin with her scissors. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sorrel appeared with a tin plate, a steaming slab of meat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Men trot by on burros with tin milk containers strapped to their saddles, starting their morning deliveries. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But the troops stood there, facing the horizon in their tin hats, rifles lifted above the waves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I think of this syrup tin as an ancient artifact, like something dug up out of a tomb. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Evelyn’s family didn’t have a lot of money, and sometimes Mom would send us down to her house with tins of food. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Lolo sits down on the edge of the sofa and puts his tin of dominoes on the coffee table. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z One afternoon during swimming hour, the tin door of the changing room clanged open and shut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And I want a deep, rich cabernet sauvignon to wash it all down, not apple juice from a tin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Kendra raised the weed digger, holding the pie tin in her other hand. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A fork stuck out of the open bottle of olives that she had placed on a tin tray on top of the covered and folded rollaway bed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave us ten minutes to dress, then he came in carrying a broom, a hammer, and a sack full of tin can lids he had scrounged somewhere. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When I can’t find a suitable replacement for the mint tin, I unzip a side pocket and put the sandwich bag inside. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The only sound was the steady patter of rain on the tin roof. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I once gave you a tin of golden syrup.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z I poured myself a mug of coffee and Mr. Whiskers a saucer of tinned milk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It has given me tin cans for pots, and now an oaken board for a shovel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched as a variety of tiny winged animals came and went, feeding from the pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The twins opened a few tins of condensed milk, handing the empty cans to Minerva, who rinsed them out in a puddle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He held the tin mug upside down over it and then slipped the card out from between them, so that the creature fell into the glass. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z For two years now I’d kept these things of hers inside a tin box, buried in the orchard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the floor—it was the first thing he noticed—a tin coffee cup lay tipped on its side. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The tin can spun to the side and fell from the log, but Beto saw something else: an explosion of red. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The walls behind the counter were covered with wooden animal masks and bright tin suns, moons, and skeletons. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z We all shook our feet in de light at our new shoes and looked at one another’s hair ribbons, white socks, and especially our tin or plastic necklaces and rings. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z She sat by the window with the tin soldier, looking at the hills and wondering exactly where Mo was hiding among all the branches and leaves there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it one of marble; in Alexandria, history has taken a city of marble and left it one of tin, plaster, and tar paper. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I check the house for belongings, shut the door to the attic, and set the photograph upright beside the sugar tin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Today’s moving target was not an Me-109 or a pheasant but an empty tin on a stick, waved about by a very brave soul at the other end of the garden. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Olanna opened it and placed the squat cans of condensed milk and the slender tin of Ovaltine and the packet of salt on the bed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He slipped a quarter into the tin, hanging on to a dime and a few pennies for himself. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even Mariam, who’d been busy scraping out the last of the honey from a metal tin, paused to stare at her father. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She’d used some rope to strap the tin to her belt, and before she stepped out of the shade of the sill, she rubbed a little more on her palms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The mint tin is small enough to fit in the palm of Ma’s hand. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It was just a sloping building covered with corrugated tin panels hammered together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, a half-empty tin of store-bought buttery cookies sits on the table. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Smoked ham, bacon, a bucket of salt mackerel, flour, cornmeal, grits, raw sweet potatoes, lard, coffee, a tin of butter, some store bread, and a can of beaten biscuits that Dunse’s mama made. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z On her desk, next to her computer, was a tin of loose-leaf tea. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That day, after the guard had left, I looked at myself in my tin plate. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z They ran through scrub woodland to the nearest shelter in their pajamas and tin hats, clutching gas masks and ID cards. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was white and rundown with a weathered tin roof and wood stacked on the front porch. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She opened the side door to the auditorium, and we marched in behind her to what sounded like hard rain on a tin roof. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z These are my main communications with my brother now, these raspy tin can words, sentences without vowels, the Morse of feet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he went out to get the tin trunk and after a while I followed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell you one thing,” Mrs. said to Pa. “When we get home, you’re going to trade in this tin can on wheels for a brand-new car. That’s the end of this Wildcat.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The best time to see them was at dawn because after the sun came up they would be hiding or sleeping inside shelters of old tin, cardboard, and scrap wood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There was apples, some collard greens, four or five tin cans, and a package that spilt; it coulda been cornmeal. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “The Methodist Mission gets us milk powder and vitamins to distribute in the villages along the river. The tins of food and quinine pills come from the ABFMS.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She adjusted the tin, climbed the ladder, and tried again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A packet of cigarette sweets, a tin Phantom pencil box and Paul Bunyan—a Junior Classics Illustrated comic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Could you please reach two tins of milk from that shelf there?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They were broken toys, bits of rusted tin, as if a careless child had left them out in the rain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He opened a tin for Moxie and left her to eat in the kitchen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When he snapped it open the tin soldier began trembling so much that the bayonet slipped from his tiny hands. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Because there was no meat, she’d used a tin of tuna. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The cowbells rang softly as the tin bucket slid down over his ears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Their heads might have been tinned upside down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee chewed an unlit cigar and sipped cold coffee from a tin flask. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wandered through the store, studying shelves lined with unlabeled packets and tins. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “When Del Monte took the peaches out of the tin and put them in a glass container, people said, ‘Ahh, this is something like my grandmother used to make.’ Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He rolled over and pulled the cookie tin out from under the bed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I should have guessed from the way he wasn’t meticulous about packing up and almost left behind a precious tin of canned meat, like it was nothing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Seeing as how I no longer ate anything, there were no rotting food scraps to worry about, just cigarette butts, aspirin tins, wads of undernourished hair, and bloody Kleenex. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I fumbled my meal chit into one of the dull tin trays and collected a portion of steamed pudding, a sausage, and some of the ever-present beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Giving him just long enough to get settled good, I let fly a rock and it hit that tin roof like a gunshot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Actually, as witness his unmusical opening—“Romans, countrymen and lovers”—it’s Brutus who has the tin ear. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He put the meat and the matches together with the mess tin into his rucksack and searched the other tents, but found them empty. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The next morning I had fried tomatoes for breakfast and a tin of green beans which Mother heated up in a saucepan. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He pushed the tin back into the niche and slid the book in after it just as Vola came back in. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In it I kept a kettle, some sugar and coffee, and a tin mug. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked up at the pressed tin on the ceiling to keep from crying. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she cleared everything—compact, billfold, laundry bill, toothbrush, a tin of aspirins, and a gold-plated swizzle stick—back into her handbag. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He chewed on a tin can as we stared across the pond at the line of new cabins under construction. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Sit down,” said Lupin, taking the lid off a dusty tin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The cookie tin had seemed to surprise him—an oversight. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Deal. And, Percy—” Whatever she was going to say was interrupted by Grover, who stumbled out of the Big House, tripping over tin cans. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They pass farms, spotted cows grazing in fields, red silos, white wooden churches, barns with rusted tin roofs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He carelessly dropped the tin soldier to the floor, got up, and walked toward Prosper and Scipio. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z We went back to Gus and Bertha’s a few times to check the trap, but the table scraps were still in the pie tin. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Near the exit, I hand the tin to the homeless man. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I looked at them, twirling little sticks inside tins filled with mud, pretending to be cooking, porridge maybe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He stoked the fire, put coffee on, fed Mr. Whiskers a saucer of tinned milk, and fetched me another pail of water to fill the reservoir. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was only a tin can propped up on a log, Beto told himself. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Tin cans ... a perfectly good bag of tin cans.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z To see all those hungry kids in the Seam running around, waving cans of applesauce, tins of meat, even candy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They had front porches in identical states of disrepair, tin roofs warped and rusted to a similar dull red hue, and flyblown outhouses in each dirt backyard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After I had practically memorized every detail, I would give them to my mother, who kept them in the biscuit tin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z One day she made a stew with green beans and tinned sardines. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma City’s decaying skyscraper core. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He had a tin of cold stew in one hand, a teaspoon in the other. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Scattered among them were armies of tin soldiers, steam engines, and sailing ships with carved sailors—and in the middle of this chaos sat a boy. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Neumann Two removes a small tin from his coat, dumps three round pills on the table, and gulps them down. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He stood abruptly, crossed the room, and re- tinned with a green jar in his good hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even a tin can with an inch of water in it can be the birthplace of hundreds of hungry and potentially dangerous mosquitoes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Chip Cusumano laughed into the empty tea tin he was examining. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And a Nivea tin full of smelly ashes, probably from some Ash Wednesday when Mama had dragged me to church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He swung the flashlight and saw a couple of wooden wagons that must have been used to carry equipment down or tin back up to the surface. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He lashed the Roc’s tin bowl nest to the top, then fixed it on the stage. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She starts a fire inside a ring of stones and cooks something in a large tin can. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z If I don’t end up in that foul hotel courtyard with my head in a tin washtub it will be a blooming miracle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The tin roof rattled as something struck it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z There were empty boxes for hide-and-seek, there were walls to climb, tin cans to roll, and pieces of twine to tie and swing on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a bit of coconut husk that I could use to scrape the dishes clean, and a tin of powdered soap. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Worried that her breath was bad, she kept a tin of mints beside her bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lula trembled and clutched a tin bucket to her chest and looked like she was going to be sick at any moment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Relaxed men told loud jokes to each other on the waterfront, a tin whistle played, and a small dog yipped. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi picked up the tin of powdered formula the doctor had brought a few days before when he had said that her mother’s body was too weak to produce milk for the babies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a dreary Friday, the rain beat down on the tin roof of the hooch all morning, and we were all down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The bail of the tin lantern squeaked a little as the light swung in Lee’s hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Every day she brought an orange for little recess and a blue tin box of lunch for big recess. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Shortly after his arrest police discovered a tin box, marked “Property of H. H. Holmes,” containing various documents and a dozen letters from the girls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A small fire with a metal grate slid overtop where they were cooking beans in a tin pot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Without wiping off the mantelpiece at all, Uncle Camp had painted around a tin matchbox and right over a cockroach, a pencil stub, and a shirt button. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The street was jammed with masked and costumed children making a deafening din with their penny tin horns. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She's tinned toward me on the couch, and I'm looking into her face, and it's hard to believe eyes this pretty don't work. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm sitting on the couch next to an empty lasagna tin and two root beer bottles, but I'm a million miles away. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All around him, suspended from the tree like misshapen fruit, were other new items: stolen shirts, socks, a length of rope, a tin cup, an extra blanket, sacks of food. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “You’re like a cat with a bunch of tin cans tied to its tail.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them would be happy to eat one tin of that dog food you slop out twice a day. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I watched him then key open the desk drawer, put a fat envelope into the petty-cash tin and close and lock it back up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He put the tin of lotus-oil balm back in his pocket. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We celebrate with a can of tinned ham on toast, and Helena falls asleep early. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z That way the soldiers won’t think I’m trying to poison them with my tin of cookies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z One with laughter like tin and one with eyes of a cat and one with hands like porcelain. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to press a tin cup into his hands just to get him to drink. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z So Dasch asked a crewman to cut some thin tin into the image of the porcupine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Because of the oxalic acid,” said Sister Fenella, pressing the pastry into a baking tin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I let him stop every now and then to sniff a tangle of weeds or inspect a tin can on the side of the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z And so I found myself, six days later, standing at our local airport watching a tin commuter plane containing Katz touch down and taxi to a halt on the tarmac twenty yards from the terminal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the lever and coal rattled against the sides of the tin chute and he saw the whole furnace blaze and the draft roared still louder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then they moved apart, and we went to work, trying to dredge out at least a few bottles or tins from the sea of sewage. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t answer, I just kept drying tin cans. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z As he took up a brush and a tin of blacking, he said, “So the future’s looking bright for Molly.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The links were forged of every metal known to man: black iron and red gold, bright copper and dull lead, steel and tin and pale silver, brass and bronze and platinum. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And there was usually a tin can with food still clinging to the inside. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z A rusted tin sand pail was being lowered, and once it reached her, the window upstairs shut. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Will had found a tin of condensed milk, and the cat had lapped it hungrily and then begun to lick her wounds. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pick me up an old pie tin, too. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A small tin sign on a big banyan tree said For V.D. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s more of them cookies in the tin box next to the refrigerator.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z On the table was the marble slab, the sugar tin, a rolling pin, a large bowl of green apples, and one bright yellow lemon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, I open a cabinet and take out the small tin that used to hold tea leaves. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They pick it out of the stinking tins greedily and go off with it under their blouses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She played the piano for him, and though he had a tin ear, he listened with enjoyment and love. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In a moment she reappeared holding a camera, a real camera, with a thick lens like a big tin can. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The toys wound up with a bronze key and waddled on stiff legs, tin ears flapping. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The tin soldier leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He watched the dark steaming mixture pour into a collapsible tin cup, which was handed him straight off. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z As quietly as I could, I got up and fetched an old coffee tin where Osh sometimes kept seeds he collected once the garden was spent. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z After pouring warm water in a tin bowl, I take a rag and scrub my face, my neck, my fingernails. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Three children and an old man were playing football with a tin can on the other side of the square. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Reaching the greenbelt, they tinned back the way they’d come, neither of them speaking, concentrating instead on navigating through the trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I sort of tinned my back more on Samuel and whispered: You saw my stomach, I said. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A large raindrop splashed down on the paper, and the man hurriedly rolled it up and grabbed his tin box of crayons. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He swept the puppet over a bale of hay and dropped it onto the wooden egg in the big tin bowl that Vola had painted to look like a nest. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The server picked a blue enamel tin plate from a stack behind her and scooped out a bright yellow blob from the pot in front of her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Milton looked down at the tin and took a cookie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ishtar's abode made the White House look like a tin shack. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He rattled about in a cupboard and found a smokeleaf tin about three inches in diameter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was this difference, though: the sheds had tin chimneys, and out of the chimneys whirled constellations of sparks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Better than I was the last time,” I said, remembering when O’Dell and I had gone looking for roof tin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Long, flat anchovies in oval tins, and curled-up anchovies pressed against their glass jars. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Biscuit tins with sumptuous pictures of English castles and ladies with bustles and ringlets. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was cool buttermilk yet, thanks to Violet, and I poured some in a tin cup. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Cold tinned beans! It’s quarter to two. The pub’ll be shut by the time we get there.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Passengers had brought on board all manner of spices and sweetmeats, tinned sardines, octopus in wine sauce, legs of lamb preserved with garlic cloves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Athena olive oil tins lined the front window next to a bust of Donizetti. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The rain splattered on the tin roof of the barn, like a drummer who was just learning how to play, uneven and off-beat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z So they went outside and saw a small wooden building with what looked like a sheet of tin on top. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “They could be old tin cans or, I dunno, empty potion bottles...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In a cookie tin they found the unopened envelopes of money Esteban had sent his sister once a month for all those years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a tin out of the basket and passed it to me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife stepped in from the kitchen, greasing a muffin tin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While it was warming, she put a sugar bun and a spoon on a round tin tray. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate a can of white beans, passing it between them, and he threw the empty tin into the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He felt for the pack he’d been carrying and took something out, unfolding layers of oilskin and then striking a match to light a little tin lantern. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The little man—if man he was, which Tristran found rather unlikely—sighed mournfully and reached into the pan sizzling on the fire, with his knife, and flicked two large mushrooms into Tristran's tin bowl. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When he punctured the tin, the contents exploded in his face, covering us with a fizzy brown juice. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He felt a shiver at the sound of her laugh, as though someone was slowly pouring a tin of cold water down his back. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Some of the treasure. In that old tin you use for seeds. Just a few pieces, before we hid the rest.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Wildly Ignatius pulled upward on the tin bun. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She dragged herself over the edge onto the tin roof of the container. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She offered him a lemon drop from the little silver tin she’d been carrying around since London. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z She took one and handed the tin to Con and Taisin, who looked as tired as she felt. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I would simply add spring water to the flour and bake this on a piece of tin. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The starboard wing was heavily engaged, however, and the center had shattered under the stones of those trebuchets, some captains tinning downstream, others veering to port, anything to escape that crushing rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I give the almost empty tin to Glamour Girl and thank her. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z One of the little lids in the tin bun opened and deposited a few steaming hot dogs on the street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The man laughed, too, but at least he got up and brought the tin of milk over to me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She clucked her tongue as all but one coin clanked into the tin with the rest of that week’s Booker money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was dreaming of her arms around him strong, when the rain on the tin roof woke him up. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “In a tin in my overcoat pocket. Also a blue enamel pillbox. And my cigarettes. Will you go get them for me?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Trot down to the hardware store and buy me a tin of 1080 poison—I got some vermin to kill up at the dump.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The tin roof is held down with large rocks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Geyer caught a train to Detroit, the city where Alice had written the last of the letters in the tin box. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Luster cried and Frony came and gave Luster a tin can to play with, and then I had the spools and Quentin fought me and I cried. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z TiTi shoves into my hand a tin of flower seeds we gathered last fall. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was the loneliest summer job a girl could have, stuck in a roadside hut with three walls and a flat tin roof. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nitta, a small woman with a waist no larger than a soup tin, darted up and down the rows like a hummingbird beneath her straw picking hat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She handed me the tin bowl anyway, and I took a mouthful. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As we sat around our campfire that evening, eating a scratch meal from tins, I heard the distant, grunting roar of a lion. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He fired once more, hitting a tin can that ricocheted into the desperately flopping bird. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the cabin, thunder cracked and then came the sound of rain falling on the tin roof. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Sherman and I crawled on our bellies, pushing in front of us our makeshift armor of corrugated tin taken from the blockhouse roof. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She starts putting things back into her purse, starting with the red mint tin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Their rickshaws all waited idly in the lane, and Father had to steer through a tangle of tin and tires. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z A tin of ribbons lay open on her lap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he carried a tray over to our table with three lidded tin tureens on it, and started banging the tureens down. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the hole he saw rocks, boards, leaves, even a tin cup, but no gold. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The tin soldier started at the word fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When you order kalbi or bulgogi, a man brings a tin of red-hot coals to set inside the pit of the table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a man holding the tin, not my father, but a man with the same crease around his eyes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The first chance she had, she plunged her arm down into the stiffly frosted canvas of the kit bag and brought up the little tin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “What news she has comes from imps,” Grandpa con' tinned. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At night they serve soup in a cauldron, and he gulps down four helpings from a tin cup. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At a wonderful store in Stonington, half hardware store and half ship’s chandler, I bought a kerosene lamp with a tin reflector for Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In Aunty Ifeoma’s room, only a few things remained on the floor, the things we would use until we all left for Enugu: a bag of rice, a tin of milk, a tin of Boumvita. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z From time to time she was handed a glass of tea, the cracker tin was passed in her direction, and she helped children shoot chips across the carom board. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Ma pulls a small red tin from the mess on the table. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z In the gray light, her gold eyes looked more like tin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was always leaving little gifts in Nate’s tent—a pair of wool socks, a tin canteen. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The rain rattled on the rusted tin roof, and rainwater leaked out of the rain gutter and splashed off the porch railing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When he was done he sat holding the empty tin and looking down into it as if more might appear. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Each brick consisted of 2,864 calories and was wrapped in wax paper and packed in tin boxes; the hold of the ship was loaded with them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The tree stood in a big tin bucket with broken bricks to hold it upright. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivanito helps her blend the coconut with egg yolks, vanilla, condensed milk, sugar, cornstarch, and salt, and holds the empty tin vegetable- oil containers while she fills them with the mixture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I scoot the tin can from the ashes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I set out an enamelware plate and a tin fork and spoon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Heavy rain pelted against the tin roof of the school building. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He handed Somkit a stack of tin sheets and a bundle of short copper wires. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z There’s a sharp squeal, and then whatever was growling inside the tin in her bag grows quiet. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The room was full of the low murmur of conversation, punctuated by laughter and the metallic sound of spoons and forks scraping against the tin trays. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was buried in the local churchyard in a coffin, it was said, made of tin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z By then I had grown fat on tinned milk formula. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fender was a battered tin oilstove, a saucepan and two cups, provided by Mr. Charrington. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The other diners tinned to stare, but I couldn’t be bothered. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I carried a tin bucket of water to a shaded area in the five acres of scrub and dumped it on the ground in the same place a couple of times a day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They had opened a tin of tongue and two tins of fruit. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Beneath the photograph, there was a small tin of Romeos. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Kendra hurried to the closet, selected a bottle, unscrewed the cap, dumped the contents, and filled it with milk from the pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was a pathetically gift-wrapped box, the size of a Band-Aid tin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There was a mat and a pillow in one corner and a shelf along one wall covered in coils of wire, tin snips, pliers, and little glass jars filled with sorted pieces of metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “It was like a secondhand tin shop, a dinky little place over there on the campus,” he recalled years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Both her hands are wrapped in thick bandages—she must've cut herself on broken bottles or empty tins while cleaning out the trash cans around Union Station today. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They’d mined tin in Cornwall for three thousand years until one day the tin had run out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Two fellows with a flame-thrower are seen, one carries the tin on his back, the other has the hose in his hands from which the fire spouts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Waiting for Wishbone to eat hot dogs from the pie tin. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I also had to fit in a pyramid tin from Rose City Teas: some loose leaf FTGFOP1 First Flush Darjeeling I bought as a gift for Mamou. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He bought a souvenir for his son Howard—a tin man mounted on a spinning top. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They belonged to the woman who stayed under the bridge, with low tin walls to block the west wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She kept it in a tin box at the top of the cupboard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Only the dregs that the ladle cannot reach are tipped out and thrown into the garbage tins. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There is dirt and mud in La Saline, where, as I see now, no one has real houses, only packing crates and hammered-out tins and whatever else will keep a fam-ily somewhat dry and private. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Down to the tin can and break for the goal. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Liza lifted the pale sheet of it and laid it over one of the pie tins and trimmed the edges with a knife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But a short while later the drüskelle returned with a tin cup and a bucket of clean water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I jiggled the compartment in the underside of the tin relic and found two long thin matches. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Around a bend was an aging colonial house, with two peeling white stories and a much-repaired tin roof in every variation of sun-bleached red. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He recognized Fremantle, popeyed and grinning, rising awkwardly to his feet, tin cup raised for a toast. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She climbs gingerly back down, stepping over the chickens, marches to the sugar tin, and picks up my envelope. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The boys made the drums from empty tin cans of Nido, a powdered milk drink made by Nestle. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was the disdain that filled me as I tortured a delicate, blue-pink crawfish that huddled fearfully in the mudsill of a rusty tin can. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At the back of the drawer was a super Swiss pocketknife with a tin opener and screwdriver attachment, and this notebook—a school exercise jotter dated fifteen years ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z They’re more like cottages sharing walls than apartments, two stories with steep, peaked roofs made of tin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And he was busy anagramming anything odd—any odd night, handy dog tin, doing thy DNA—when Colin did his DNA proud: he stumbled on a molehill and fell. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Three of the tin boxes were carefully packed with explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She looked round tin room and saw the damage and saw the children, but you could not guess from her face what she thought of either or whether she was surprised. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z They have their fire going, the billy tin suspended over it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Just an old hammer and a few rusted tin cans holding some even rustier nails. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It rattled around in my mind like a dime in a tin cup. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The locksmith brings back a shirtful of vegetables and fills a tin bucket at a spigot and eases shut the barn door and feeds his daughter in the dark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Jack, as always, had peeled open a tin of shriveled purple olives. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke crept out of the tin chimneys and hung low over the shingled roofs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They were driving those old black tin lizzie type cars, the Model A types, with two men in the open section upfront and two in the cab section behind. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Our father makes a small fire to boil water in a billy tin for tea. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Old Grandma was back in her chair beside the stove after all day outside under the elm tree, and she would listen carefully for Josiah to pour water into the tin basin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z True, it had been noticed that skin cancer was prevalent among workers exposed to arsenic fumes in copper smelters and tin foundries in Cornwall and Wales. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I took off the shirt and she pushed me into a tin tub of icy cold water. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And there were packages of Top Ramen, tins of sardines, crackers, protein bars, oranges, and chocolate. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They placed a large container of ice in one room of the White House and connected it to the sickroom with tin pipes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He threw his own cigarette aside, took the tin which lay on his jacket on the lawn and walked alongside her to the fountain. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Thug was brushing his sticks across the round gold metal thing next to his drums and making it sound like a soft rain was commencing to fall on someone’s tin roof. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The capsule itself was the most sophisticated tin can on the planet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Standing before the wagon as if it were a pirate’s vessel, I brandished my cutlass menacingly for one especially memorable pose, my other hand holding the prow of the tin hot dog. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a pause, while knives scraped plates and tin mugs were picked up and replaced on the ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z One of the nurses will probably end her shift soon, and rain on a tin roof is loud. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Father shook the tin can into which we put our savings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Lola includes all kinds of things: big coffee tins, mass quantities of toothpaste, shoes, clothes, and lipstick in pretty shades for all the aunties there. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I stared at him with awe as he gulped his beer from a tin bucket, as he ate long and heavily, sighed, belched, closed his eyes to nod on a stuffed belly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Cigarette smoke had dirtied the diamond shapes of the tin ceiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gutters carry rain off the patched tin roof into two barrels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When became back, Lesage fed him, with squares of nut milk chocolate, piece by piece, out of a blue tin. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Looking at the tins now, he bitterly reproached himself for his weakness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried blue marbles, rattles in an old tin can. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked rather bored as he put a tin soldier on a tiny horse. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The cane-liquor bottle, uncapped, was on the table, a tin cup next to it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran to a bookcase filled with books and grabbed an old pretzel tin. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Maybe he could do a few odd jobs for the boatyard at Medley in exchange for a small tin of red paint. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Oranges and tin cans careened down the sidewalk. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tin tub in front of the fire, and the innkeeper's wife put up a paper screen around it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z It was dark in that tomb, dark as a tin mine, but Bod saw as the dead see and the room gave up its secrets to him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I started dragging things from all over the kitchen and piling them up against the door—a barrel half-filled with drinking water, a scuttle half-filled with coal and several tin chairs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached into her desk drawer and withdrew a festive tin of cookies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z My feet shift through the garbage on the floor, and I unearth a tin coffeepot and fill it at the sink. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “They’re get- tin’ massive, mus’ be nearly three foot long now. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Tally tinned her interface ring to bring up a menu on the wallscreen, and blinked her way through a set of eyemouse choices. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Dad didn’t deliver any lumber and tin to Cape Coalwood, even though he had promised. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I scooped it up with an old tin can we had found in the woods and brought it over to show Liz. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Dale was walking along the perimeter of the yard with a pie tin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Poor fairy, poor tin soldier, poor Dustfinger and—she thought again of the woman with the dark blond hair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Before the coldest weeks set in, we had the shutters of the storage room repaired and attached a sheet of tin to the doorframe, so that she would at least have some privacy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The tin porcupine was to be used as a sign, a way of communicating without speaking, when they secretly met, indicating that everything and everyone was all right. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I imagined him finding that tin, prying it open, spilling its treasure onto our table and figuring all that it would buy him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It was a very cheery-looking tin, but to tell the truth, it did not cheer me up very much to consider it. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z On Amherst Street, Gogol sits at his grandfather’s drawing table, poking through a tin full of dried-out nibs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They’d raise up their tin cups of warm water with molasses. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Most important of all was his little toolbox, but he also had an old biscuit tin from the kitchen with other bits and pieces in it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Ben opens a tin with painted yellow flowers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I quit talking and acted like I was having a real hard time drying the tin can she’d just handed me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Of late it seemed to him as if the very stones of Winterfell had tinned against him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The next day when the maid emptied the stove, she found a little tin heart, which was all that was left of him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In addition to Edward, pie tins hung from the pole. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The tin soldier sat beside her, his legs stretched straight out in front of him, looking with fear in his eyes at the world that was so entirely new to him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He spotted Mariam’s tin box and he growled—a deep, guttural animal sound. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z After the dishes were cleared and washed and Papa was filling the tin pail with ashes, Caleb spoke up. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z I turn to see my altar—the statue of the Virgin Mary, the tea candle, the bottle of Florida water, the beaded gourd, tin cup, and white fabric. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Our house is sturdy, with a concrete floor and a tin roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An open tin of butter cookies sat on the table. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He popped open the tin and peered in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” I say to a girl about my age carrying a tin bucket. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The tins of Ramses and Romeos were kept behind displays of aspirin and skin lightener in a plain wooden box labeled “para hombres.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z One morning he was here, and every day after that, holding a burning tin cup of bitter tea to my mouth and repeating my name: “Béene-béene.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A creaking of tin somewhere high in the roof above him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Barefoot atop the peach- colored mound, their faces smeared with dirt, they quickly scoop the sawdust into rusty tin cans and dump it into big white plastic bags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was a cot with a shuck mattress, an apple box holding a tin lantern, and a backless rocking-chair in the little room of the bunkhouse. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Other times, he asked for tea and then went on to examine the sugar bowl and the tin of milk, muttering, “The capabilities of bacteria are quite extraordinary.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There’s a little loft above the bedroom with a skylight where the rain is beating.There are boxes everywhere, newspapers, magazines, bits of food, mugs, empty tins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In late August, I was washing clothes in the tin pan in the living room when I heard someone coming up the stairs singing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The shacks were made of plastic, tin and cardboard and stood near clumps of blue gum trees, whose branches screamed like ghosts in the icy Cape wind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But all he saw were giant tin tubs, long tables for folding, and clothes left to dry overnight on racks taller than he was. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I’ve never tasted dog food but I’m sure this was worse—brownish squares of congealed meat fat from rusted tins, which, lacking utensils, we dug out with our fingers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A woman handed me and Bugs each a flat, square, empty tin can. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Our car was a tin can on wheels, and we lived in the middle of nowhere. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It had been drizzling outside for hours, but suddenly rain pounded the tin roof and turned to hail so loud that it sounded like applause. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z All his money went into a tin walrus in his bedroom. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And all I see is barbed wire and an old tomato tin, blown by the wind. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In the center of town were a few plaster buildings with corrugated tin roofs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then she grated it on the bottom of the old, leaky tin pan that Pa had punched full of nail-holes for her. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know why her boyfriend thought Calista would want to be friends with an empty tin can, but anyway, he was probably right. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z That evening Miss Trotter filled a tin pan with sliced venison and wrapped it tightly, placing it in Vonetta’s hands to carry. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z They had a tin of soup each and a blanket to share, so they’d be fine until rescue, we hoped. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Every day for two months the line of bullock carts came in laden with bricks and stones and cement, sheets of tin and corrugated iron, coils of rope and hemp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In her palm lies the tin of flower seeds I had gathered with TiTi. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Jody went to the rack and found a lantern and a tin box of matches. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled out the FTGFOP1 First Flush Darjeeling and shook the tin around. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “He’s not actually made of tin,” Noah mused thoughtfully. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Milkman went with them to the back of the station, where, on a small cemented area covered by a corrugated tin roof, the dead bobcat lay. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Saturday nights was the only time we had hot water, in a tin tub filled to the brim with the water Mama heated for my bath. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The boy took Sounder some table scraps in a tin pan. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He came over and slipped a tin of corned beef into her basket and then hurried away as if he had done nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The screws bounce off the painted tin, leaving long, twisting marks like curled ribbons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Or they might place their fresh-baked cookies in tins elaborately decorated in the Permian colors of black and white. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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