Explore Tinned through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like canned or preserved. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tinned meaning
simple past and past participle of tin
Using Tinned
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of tin
- Useful related words include: canned, preserved.
- In the example corpus, tinned often appears in combinations such as: and tinned, of tinned, tinned tomatoes.
Context around Tinned
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 15 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tinned
- In this selection, "tinned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, meat, fruit, soup, fish, food and soup stand out and add context to how "tinned" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include added more tinned fish to and are any tinned foods vegetables. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tinned" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tinned
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Expect a variety of cheese, tinned and fresh foods, pantry staples, and fridge items. (14 words)
For £3.50 she bought two shopping bags full of pasta, tinned tomatoes and fresh fruit. (16 words)
If you’re using tinned beans, now is the time to add them with their liquid. (16 words)
Millstein lived in Spain in college and spent time in Portugal, both countries where tinned fish has long been a part of people’s diets, so she knew there were better options to be had. (35 words)
He spent his life savings to get his wife and children out of the territory to Egypt and is living on tinned beans handed out by the same, now struggling NGO that he worked for. (35 words)
Among the items being sought by the small band of volunteers are any tinned foods – vegetables, baked beans, meat, fish or soup, dried foods, such as pasta, pasta sauce, rice and cereals, and toiletries. (34 words)
Are you among the many South Africans who've added more tinned fish to their grocery baskets? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Food Bank is currently in urgent need of: tinned meat, tinned fruit, tinned soup, tinned vegetables, breakfast cereals, long-life milk and cook-in-sauces.
A large allure to U.S. audiences is the fact that most Americans appear unfamiliar with the concept of tinned fish as a delicacy.
Among the items being sought by the small band of volunteers are any tinned foods – vegetables, baked beans, meat, fish or soup, dried foods, such as pasta, pasta sauce, rice and cereals, and toiletries.
Another resident also raised a concern over contaminated land as it is believed out-of-date tinned food was buried at the site in the past.
Buckinghamshire has come together over the last week with kind-hearted residents putting together whatever they can and sending donations including clothes, nappies, tinned food and cash to the earthquake-hit nations.
But I dare admit more people are starting to accept the charms of the tinned bean; it does make things easier and quicker, and it is what I have used in the recipe below.
For £3.50 she bought two shopping bags full of pasta, tinned tomatoes and fresh fruit.
Her take on it involves a surprising number of rubber chickens, several elaborate wigs, a little German boy who thinks he is a tree, and a song about tinned fish.
Millstein lived in Spain in college and spent time in Portugal, both countries where tinned fish has long been a part of people’s diets, so she knew there were better options to be had.
Next, add in the sun-dried and tinned tomatoes, stock and sugar, and bring to the boil, stirring consistently.
Only tinned fish and in some cases plain white bread available at traditionally stocked up stores, with health-crazed Angelinos snapping up all the healthier wholemeal alternatives.
Phone boxes are being removed and houses are being tinned up in a part of Liverpool that is being blighted by crime and antisocial behaviour.
She came to the aid distribution centre pulling her bicycle and left with a bag full of tinned food, her main source of sustenance these days.
She can only grocery shop every few days due to limited fridge space and has at times resorted to eating tinned spaghetti on bread.
She says the store sells more than 20 different varieties of tinned seafood, including a display of cans designed to look like gold bars.
So I bought tinned soup from to see which was the cheapest and which tasted the best.
Are you among the many South Africans who've added more tinned fish to their grocery baskets?
Expect a variety of cheese, tinned and fresh foods, pantry staples, and fridge items.
He spent his life savings to get his wife and children out of the territory to Egypt and is living on tinned beans handed out by the same, now struggling NGO that he worked for.
If you’re using tinned beans, now is the time to add them with their liquid.
Common combinations with tinned
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and tinned 13×
- of tinned 10×
- tinned tomatoes 10×
- tinned food 8×
- tinned fish 6×
- tinned meat 5×
- tinned and 4×
- tinned soup 2×
- tinned vegetables 2×
- on tinned 2×