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Example sentences for "tins"

Lexicographically close words:
tinning; tinnitus; tinny; tinos; tinplate; tinsel; tinseled; tinselled; tinsmith; tint
  1. Line individual tins with pastry and fill three-fourths full with the mixture.

  2. Beat in layer cake tins and spread the following mixture between when the cakes are nearly cold.

  3. Have three buttered layer cake tins ready and put two-thirds of the mixture into two of them, into the third tin put the remainder of the batter, having first added to it two tablespoons melted chocolate.

  4. Bake in three layer cake tins in an oven hotter than for loaf cake.

  5. Line small tins with paste, fill with the mixture and bake in a moderate oven.

  6. Set in warm place over night, and in the morning with spoon and knife fill your tins part full, let rise to nearly top of pan, then bake an hour for medium size loaves.

  7. Once a figure blocked out the starlight at one of the windows, and I heard a rustling and shuffling on the shelf where my food tins were piled.

  8. The inevitable cheese was on hand, strongly barricaded in a crystal dish; and when I saw the tins of guava jelly and the bunch of bananas hanging from a stanchion, I had that dinner all mapped out.

  9. She had caught Mr. Pretty peeping between the biscuit tins to watch her down the street.

  10. She looked, drearily, the vinegar being measured and the customer gone, between the intervening biscuit tins and pickle jars into the street.

  11. She then caused the cook to make the material into guava jelly, which she packed in tins or jars collected for the purpose.

  12. Meanwhile, the powder which was loose had flared up and frightened the horses; then the open tins burst and showered the ground with flaring rain.

  13. The full tins went off like bombs, and one of them, dislocating the arrangement of timber under the gun, upset the whole pile.

  14. Already some of our men were patching leaky, shrapnel-flicked roofs with biscuit-tins and strong strips of waterproof sheeting.

  15. For once in a way the dog neglected shells, and searched for bully-beef leavings among the tins thrown aside by the battery drivers.

  16. Such things as the stove, the spare crockery and cutlery, several tins of biscuits, and the officers' kit were quickly dumped upon the ground, and I told off one of the servants to act as guard over it until the morning.

  17. Rifles were piled against the wall; mess-tins and water-bottles lay even upon the altar.

  18. Make it out in cakes about a quarter or half an inch thick, butter your tins or pans, put them on and set them to rise.

  19. Fill small tins about three parts full with the mixture and bake them.

  20. Let it rise, then make it out in cakes, grease tins or pans, and lay the buns on them; as soon as they rise again bake them in a quick oven.

  21. Knead it well, roll it out in sheets, cut it in cakes with a cake-cutter or the rim of a tumbler, place them on tins and bake them in a moderately hot oven.

  22. Butter your tins or pans, place them on them, but do not let them touch each other, and bake in a rather quick oven.

  23. Knead it well, make it out in small cakes, bake them on tins in a very moderate oven.

  24. Roll out the dough, cut it in cakes and bake them on tins in a moderately hot oven.

  25. Set it away to rise in the evening; in the morning make it out in small cakes, butter your tins and bake in a moderate oven.

  26. We had to pass through the German barbed wire, which had tins tied to it so that it rattled if anyone tried to pass it.

  27. Each man in the party had to carry four petrol tins of water.

  28. It can be obtained of most Chemists and Health Food Stores, in Tins and Packets, 1/1.

  29. Line in the tins with puff paste, half fill, brush edges with egg or water, lay on another round of paste, press edges together and bake.

  30. Put these into the different tins and place at once in hot oven.

  31. Mix thoroughly, put into butter papered tins and bake in a quick oven.

  32. All of the above are put up in sample tins (3 1/2d.

  33. An attempt was made to do the packing in Uruguay, but the Government of that republic imposed so high a tariff upon the tins that the scheme was abandoned.

  34. He toppled two last five gallon tins of gasoline into the cockpits--crowding them abominably--and swung on the prop.

  35. While it was warming up, he stripped off the rest of his shirt and tore it into wide strips, and tied the rags in the handles of the gasoline tins in the two cockpits.

  36. He reached down and battered in the top of one of the five gallon gasoline tins in the cockpit with the barrel of his revolver.

  37. The day after the Evans' arrival he had found his yard littered with tins which he recognized as old acquaintances, and since that time they had travelled backwards and forwards with monotonous regularity.

  38. Jack cut open the meat tins with his knife and they fell to eating as they discussed their situation.

  39. Two tins of beef, some packages of crackers and a big pie reposed there.

  40. I did not like the careful way the cover of the latter had been put on, however, and, besides, tins and cases are quite the sort of thing any submarine throws over just as fast as it is through with them.

  41. Dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in a little water, mix all together quickly, roll lightly into two round sheets, place on pie tins and bake from twenty to twenty-five minutes in quick oven.

  42. Bake in two tins about forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

  43. These loaves are then set on floured tins to rise in a warm place for about twenty minutes before they are baked.

  44. Steamed soufflées are turned out of the tins they are cooked in, and served with a sauce poured round them.

  45. Line some little tartlet tins with some puff paste, put a piece of dough in each, and bake them.

  46. Set them to rise on floured tins for about ten minutes.

  47. The cake tins should be kept in a dry place, and before using should be well greased, especially at the bottom.

  48. Add the lemon rind, and partly fill small well-greased Queen-cake tins with the mixture.

  49. First come the tins of soup, only two, because they are of the best kind and expensive; but I have those on hand all the time, for they are very good, and such a comfort when you are in great need.

  50. The open cupboard door showed shiny tins and blue and white saucepans, and some delightful contrivances in the way of cream-whippers and mayonnaise-droppers and moulds.

  51. Next are the tins of meat and fish; not roast beef now, but a can of tongue, two of chicken, and bacon, and several of salmon and sardines.

  52. If there is nothing whatever to eat, make an omelette, or open one of the tins of tomatoes you keep for such an occasion and have Spanish toast, and then tea and crackers and cheese and jam; you see it is simple enough.

  53. One day bake the cake in a loaf and add raisins and spices; or split it and put jam between the layers; or bake it in two tins and put mixed nuts and raisins chopped together between the layers.

  54. The tins are next placed in a bath of chloride of calcium, the effect of which is to heat the water in them up to the boiling point, and after a certain time to more or less cook the meat contained in them.

  55. The tins and their contents are then securely soldered down, with the exception of a small opening not larger than a pin-hole, which is left in the lid.

  56. Goldner's process differs somewhat from the preceding, in the employment of a higher degree of heat, more hastily applied, and not prolonged or repeated after the tins are soldered up.

  57. The condensed or preserved milk, now in such general use, and which is met with in tins as milk which has been more or less deprived of water by evaporation in vacuo.

  58. To still further guard against the entrance of air, the tins are covered over with a thick coating of paint.

  59. But those boys you have just noticed gathering the tins are wasting their time.

  60. Copper had thrown beef-tins at McBride in the grey dawn of many wet and dry camps for intoning it.

  61. At this point I thought it best to rattle my tins and step out of the shadow of the crane.

  62. It seemed no chase at all; it seemed we had no chance, as we lay there bound to iron pillars, and fooling away the precious moments over tins of beans.

  63. The fire was soon drowned out; after a couple of boxes of matches had been scratched in vain, it was decided to wait for better weather; and the party lived in wretchedness on raw tins and a ration of hard bread.

  64. Hemstead grumbled; Tommy had occasional moments of revolt and increased the ordinary by a few haphazard tins or a bottle of his own brown sherry.

  65. Why, I've had upwards of thirty cowtops sitting in my front verandah eating tins of salmon.

  66. From the cabin the cook was storing tins into the lazarette, and the four hands, sweaty and sullen, were passing them from one to another from the waist.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.