tiffin

Example Sentences

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At the counter selling pastries, bread and lunches, Helen Vandenhaute shows me their stackable "tiffin tins" used for takeaways.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023

Rashim, who is fond of thriller TV shows, watches a local Indian serial on his smartphone while his oldest son, a young teenager, shows up with a tiffin, or lunchbox.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2022

On those afternoons, my own untouched tiffin would return home on the back of the tiffinwala’s bicycle.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2022

The three-tier tiffin box is made from pure gold and weighs about 2kg.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2018

Though he had had his dinner before leaving for the station, a four-layer tiffin carrier packed by his mother sat at his feet, in the event that hunger should attack him in the night.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri