tiffin
Example Sentences
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With her mother's help and recipes, the teenager started cooking and selling 35 tiffin boxes of food a day to office workers.
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2022
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
He found a hawker to sell his necklaces and earrings in plastic tiffin boxes on a street full of cheap-jewelry sellers.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
