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• The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.From the entry lie
• Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin.From the entry special
• Following the divorce and the lawsuit, bankruptcy is just another nail in his coffin.From the entry another nail in someone's coffin
• The people following the coffin inclined their heads in grief.From the entry incline
• Architectural historians find this equally implausible — you wouldn't carry a coffin upstairs to begin with.[2026 January 16, Ellsworth Toohey, “Vermont's tilted "witch windows" were supposedly designed to stop witches”, in BoingBoing, archived…. From the entry coffin window
• I'm still alive, and trapped in one of your coffins."” “Mother!”2021 March 28, Janine Brito, “Dance Dance Resolution” (1:43 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 15, spoken by Jenny…. From the entry cakefetti
• Any plant that sprouts from the soil surrounding a myrtle coffin will begin producing large red berries.2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 56. From the entry native myrtle
• I got as close as I could to Andrew’s coffin without climbing inside.2015, Myriam Gurba, Painting Their Portraits in Winter, San Francisco, Calif.: Manic D Press, →ISBN. From the entry mashed potatoey
• As a result, coffin collars, mortsafes, and mort houses were employed in Scotland to prevent grave robbing.2015, Clifford A[lan] Pickover, “1832: Resurrectionists: William Harvey (1578–1657), William Burke (1792–1829)”, in Death and the…. From the entry mort house
• And that Sandra 'Bury me in a Y shaped coffin' Jeffries' last child wasn't her husband's?2012, R.W. Finlan, Darren Bowker-Powis, Aliens Stole My Bin. From the entry Y-shaped coffin
• The priest sprinkled a handful of token soil on to the coffin lid.2012 [1987], Rupert Thomson, Dreams of Leaving, reprint edition, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry spadeloads
• A few examples of material objects included in deathlore are: tombstones, roadside memorials, coffins, and cemeteries.2011, Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, page 363. From the entry deathlore
• Our crew members knew that, eventually, we would be assigned the “coffin corner.”2010, Kenneth V. Horrigan, Coffin Corner: The True Story of Kenneth Horrigan. From the entry coffin corner
• It’s just another little nail in the coffin of democracy around the world.2008 May 7, Thomas L[oren] Friedman, “The Democratic Recession”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry little nail
• The coffins eventually reached cold storage, where they were to lie for another six weeks.2003, Brett Bailey, “The Horror! The Horror!”, in The Plays of Miracle & Wonder: Bewitching Visions and Primal High-jinx from the South…. From the entry sangoma
• "More like his coffin if the barmcake tries to take on the river tonight.2003, Stephen Elboz, An Ocean of Magic. From the entry barmcake
• And then she put the coffin right out on her front porch.2001 January, Susan Schorn, “Bobby Lee Carter and the hand of God”, in U.S. Catholic, volume 66, number 1, page 34. From the entry something
• Cats, dogs, and even crocodiles often get the same treatment—complete with animal-shaped coffins and painted faces.1999, Sally Tagholm, “Mummification”, in Ancient Egypt: A Guide to Egypt in the Time of the Pharaohs (Sightseers: Essential Travel Guides…. From the entry mummification
• The young priest took the thurible from the altar boy and moved along the coffin.1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Part 1, at page 57 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition). From the entry thurible
• After opening shrines, a stone sarcophagus, and mummiform coffins, they finally viewed the mummified body of Tutankhamon.1996, LaMar C. Berrett, Discovering the World of the Bible, page 296. From the entry mummiform
• We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses.1981, Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry up-end
• On closer inspection the coffins seemed to be more like sarcophagi.1980 October, Douglas Adams, chapter 23, in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry sarcophagus
• The stones clattered on the coffin; the mud remained in his hand.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, page 167. From the entry mullock
• Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry deadborn
• And, of course, Elizabeth Holmes, whose spectacular downfall may just prove to be the final nail in the coffin of girlbossdom.2021 December 21, Cornelia Channing, “Should you aspire to be a girlboss?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022. From the entry girlbossdom
• A man there was required to sit in a coffin in public after being caught not wearing a mask.2020 September 17, Mochamad Andri, “Indonesians caught without a mask forced to dig graves for Covid-19 victims”, in CNN. From the entry Jakarta
• Body parts are scattered about the cemetery where bombs have landed, uprooting the corpses from their flimsy paper-mache coffins.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234. From the entry Chapei
• Kick it hard, kick it deep, and aim for the coffin corner when close enough to the opponents' end zone.2014 November 7, “Rugby-style kicking helps Chiefs' Colquitt take punting to another level”, in Kansas City Star. From the entry coffin corner
• Paul put the skull back in its proper place, put back the coffin lid, and kicked dirt and rocks overtop.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 154. From the entry overtop
• One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.'2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry biographer
• Yawo Muslims do not use wooden coffins, but bury their dead by wrapping them in a calico sheet called sanda.2012, Ian D. Dicks, An African Worldview: The Muslim Amacinga Yawo of Southern Malaŵi, →ISBN. From the entry sanda
• As the ground became frozen more solidly during February, the coffined bodies could no longer be promptly buried.2011, Kevin C. Kearns, Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947: The Big Freeze of 1947. From the entry coffined
• Sheik Mohammad Seyed Tantawi, Egypt’s highest-ranking imam, led the prayers over the coffin, covered with an Egyptian flag.2007 April 10, Howard Blum, “Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023, retrieved 18…. From the entry imam
• Only a lookalike, not a real hearse, it had just enough room in the trunk for one coffin.2007 08, Alan Rolnick, Landmark Status, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry lookalike
• The only draw back is probably the out-look, some people, including my mother, said it look like a coffin.1998 December 19, and...@my-dejanews.com, hk.rec.audio-visual (Usenet). From the entry outlook
• There was a “coffin window” on the stairs.[1991, Jane Scnhell, Changing Gears: Bicycling America's Perimeter, Milner Press, →ISBN, page 330. From the entry coffin window
• It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin.1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig. From the entry pallbearer

Meaning of coffin

1. noun A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
2. noun The eighth Lenormand card.
3. noun A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

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Questions about coffin in a sentence

How do you use coffin in a sentence?

Coffin is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.”

What is a short sentence with coffin?

“It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin.”

What does coffin mean?

Coffin means a closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.