How to Use coffin in a Sentence

coffin

noun

• The coffins signifies death to the slave master or to the overseer.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
• The soldiers give off a smell that reminds me of coffins.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• So maybe that was the nail in the Superman Lives coffin.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• Murdaugh took the stand himself, which was the final nail in the coffin.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 27 May 2023
• Her grandma used to brag so much about all the maple around her home that she was buried in a maple coffin.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• Mourners carried the four coffins — wrapped in white for the children, black for the grandmother — through the town.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• At the funeral processions, the coffins of the Afghans were draped in green cloth but bore the flag of no nation.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• Everyone, old and young, knelt on the frozen ground as his coffin passed on its way to the cemetery.
  — Carlotta Gall Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The evening before the funeral, Maksym’s coffin was brought into the house for a wake.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• That is, until 2026, when remote work will put the final nail in the coffin—and an end to the debate.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
• It was supposed to start with who comes out of that crystal coffin, right?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• Was the biggest bleaching event perhaps ever the final nail in the coffin for the Keys’ reefs?
  — Alie Skowronski, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• Mariano would end up picking the wrong case, which was the nail in the coffin for Addis' team.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
• Who is to say how many more coffins will be nailed by the cowardice of Guillen and the rest of his Republican colleagues?
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• Children’s coffins were carried next to those of their parents.
  — Fares Akram, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• Factors include the person’s body fat, their diet in the days before death and the dryness of the wood used for the coffin.
  — Ruth Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• After the service, men carried a white coffin out of the mosque and placed it on a vehicle.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• But the book itself might be the last nail in the coffin for that possibility.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 Jan. 2023
• The molten lead might have also been used to make repairs or reinforce weak areas in the coffins.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• Never mind the dunk in which Edwards drove down broadway and hammered down the nail in the Thunder’s coffin.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2024
• It’s now reserved for monarch funerals, when it is placed atop the coffin.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• Once the execution was over, their bodies were each placed in plain pine coffins.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Denis was behind her in the coffin, his head inches from hers.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• How at the funeral, Raymond’s friends had not wanted to let go of his coffin.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• His decision to go for a two-point conversion at the end of the game against the Indianapolis Colts may have been the nail in the coffin.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2023
• Stunt drivers would jump chasms, hop in exploding coffins, or crash planes.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of people crowded to watch the coffin be lowered into the ground.
  — WIRED, 29 June 2023
• Ahmad Yar’s coffin was in the ground, and his youngest son, 15-month-old Ali Ahmad, watched as men took shovels to a pile of fresh dirt beside the grave.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• Austin has changed a lot since Richard Linklater's ode to the velvet coffin/college town lifestyle was filmed there.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The decision to have Prince William and Prince Harry walk behind the coffin was a topic of contention.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024