tinplate
- a variation of tin plate.
Example Sentences
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Wool and imported tinplate, which was used for ceilings and cheap cookware, were particularly targeted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
According to a Reuters review of Commerce Department exclusion requests for tinplate steel, the key factor in an approval or denial is whether they draw objections from U.S.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2019
Whatever steelmakers can do in the future, says Peterson, they can’t do it now - leaving his business with no choice but to import about half its tinplate from Europe and pay tariffs.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2019
Herman became the lawyer for the local tinplate workers’ union, and in the summer of 1909, alongside his brawny seventeen-year-old son, got into a bruising clash with strikebreakers.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Above them, suspended from a wire, a tinplate clockwork aquaplane with wooden pontoons and a rotating propeller makes an electric, hypnotizing orbit.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
