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词汇 example_english_tin-roof
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tin roof

collocation in English

meanings of tinand roof


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tin
noun
uk /tɪn/ us /tɪn/
a chemical element that is a silver-coloured metal, often combined with other metals or used to cover and protect ...
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roof
noun[C]
uk /ruːf/ us /ruːf/
the covering that forms the top of a building, ...
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Examples of tin roof


These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Not having a house with a tinroof is the reference category.
This is a dummy variable coded 1 if the household has a house with a tinroof and 0 otherwise.
Interestingly, the analysis shows that having a dwelling unit with a tinroof is negatively related to occurrence of famine deaths.
Entry is via the vestibule building with its brick walls, corrugated tinroof, and steel-framed early twentieth-centur y industrial windows.
Number of famine deaths tends to be less in households that own a dwelling unit with a tinroof.
It is only a shanty, with a leaky tinroof, and had been let at rents round about £30 per annum.
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If one wants a cup of tea one goes to an old shack covered with a tinroof and stands on cinders.
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When you are in a hut which has a tinroof, you hear the rain come patter-patter.
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Do they mean a tinroof, an earth roof, a thatched roof, or one with straw or bags on it?
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Those under the tinroof did not get wet, of course.
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There has to be a shack with a tinroof, where cigarettes can be bought, and another shack with a tin roof, where incredibly vulgar picture postcards can be bought.
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The tinroof is a later replacement for the shingled or possibly tiled original roof.
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The church building is a brick structure with a tinroof and foundation of sandstone.
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Constructed of brick, the two-and-one-half-story house is covered by a tinroof.
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The barn features red horizontal siding, a tinroof and a central silo that extends through the roof.
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The original covered grandstand is still in place, though a new tinroof has replaced the former wooden one.
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It rested on abutments of split granite, and was covered with a tinroof.
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The once tinroof was covered with wood shingles.
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A staircase in the northeast of this roof leads to the tinroof, now covered with aluminum paint.
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It features a hipped tinroof crowned by a large square cupola.
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