tin cup

Examples (10)

• The old man sat on the corner, holding out a battered tin cup for spare change.
• The only sound was the clatter of a few coins dropping into the musician's tin cup.
• He sipped hot coffee from his favorite tin cup while watching the sunrise over the mountains.
• The Civil War soldier drank water from a dented tin cup he carried in his pack.
• After the economic collapse, the small nation was forced to go to the world bank with a tin cup in hand.
• On the dusty shelf was a simple tin cup, a relic from his grandfather's prospecting days.
• For backpacking, a lightweight tin cup is ideal because it won't break like ceramic.
• As a child, I used a little tin cup to scoop water from the stream.
• She polished the old tin cup until it shone, remembering the stories attached to it.
• His plea for funding was little more than a sophisticated version of rattling a tin cup.