How to Use coin in a Sentence

coin

1 of 2 noun

• I have a dollar in coins.
• The 49ers won the coin toss and elected to receive the ball in overtime.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
• The Grizzlies won a coin flip with the Cavaliers and will have the 25th pick.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2023
• And, thanks to the deals, the surplus of coins can go right back into the fund for next year.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 19 Nov. 2023
• At Mischa, those two ideas are flip sides of the same coin.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2023
• Imagine that the weight of the coin is controlled by a dial.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• During the coin toss, the 49ers decided to possess the ball first.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• That’s because blockchain is now filled up with NFTs and meme coins.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
• Save your coins, sis! Picnic in one of New York City’s parks.
  — Felice León, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
• Those odds are in play if every game was a coin flip – or a fair 50/50 shot.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Who knows, maybe Lohan is gonna get her wish through a gold coin.
  — Vulture, 22 Jan. 2024
• The price of ether, the coin tied to ethereum, rose rapidly after the bitcoin ETF approvals.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
• There’s another side to the coin that’s a little scary.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
• The other side of that coin is having someone who would go to bat for you.
  — Lauren Wickstead, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• There's lots of space to store credit cards, business cards, cash and even a few coins.
  — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
• But the opposite side of the coin is the social expense and the awkwardness.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
• Colorado won the overtime coin toss and elected to give the ball to its offense first.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
• The pair were buried with coins, gold earrings, glass bottles, a lamp and a necklace.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• The coin slot lights up red when one of the buttons is pressed, and the game's score can be rotated to increase it.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
• In most tennis matches, when a set moves to a tiebreaker, the outcome comes down to a flip of a coin.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• She has been tasked with finding gold coins amid the rubble without a grasp of the landscape.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• The props include handouts and coins from the Fortune’s Wheel casino.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• On the other side of the coin, men with a more oily scalp may only be able to tolerate it once a week.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• This all came to a head when investors decided to sell their coins on the exchange.
  — Brandy Hadley, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2023
• On the flip side of the coin stand those clients determined to steer clear of any and all financial pitfalls.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• The idea is that the government could mint a $1 trillion platinum coin and use it to avoid a default.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• One of the guests, Stephen Colbert, paid Fallon in pennies, dumping a bucket of the coins all over him.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• First, Biden could order the U.S. Mint to create something like a coin worth $1 trillion.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• The gifts, which are equivalent to money, are TikTok coins in the form of emojis and stickers.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• His family sent photos of the coin to experts, who asked to see it in person.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023

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coin

2 of 2 verb

• The nation plans to coin more money.
• William Shakespeare is believed to have coined many words.
• This moon also is called a blue moon, the term coined for the second full moon in a month.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• In fact, it was coined not by an astronomer, but by an astrologer.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2020
• To coin a phrase that fellow Hall of Famer made – Tupac Shakur called it a rose that rose from the concrete.
  — Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2021
• In Japan, a new word has been coined, on-nomi (オン飲み), which refers to drinking with friends online.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Yes, Week 1500 is yet another chance to coin new words, one that’s pretty clear on what to do.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• The slogan had yet to be coined, but the sentiment was certainly there.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
• Astronomers first coined this term in the 1980s, but then, for decades, it was largely forgotten.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• Before anybody had thought to coin the term, the Meyer boys were homeschooled.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 28 Aug. 2021
• The matchup, coined as the Texas Throwdown, was a roller coaster that featured momentum swings and big plays from both teams.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2020
• Harold Shand, the Cockney gangster brought to snarling life by Bob Hoskins, is a man who knows how to coin a memorable phrase.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• In Week 1461 the Empress asked the Loser Community to coin words based on people’s names.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• The term was first coined last year amid a rise in pink, following the Valentino fall 2022 collection and the first set photos from the Barbie movie.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 24 July 2023
• The term supermoon was coined by astrologer Richard Noelle in 1979, but some believe the term is a bit misleading.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 20 July 2023
• That phrase was first coined by legendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, describing a tough style of running the ball.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• Some might refer to this as the last-mile problem or perhaps more aptly coin it as the last-step problem in this instance.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• In this de facto role, Preskill has coined catchphrases to make concepts in the math-heavy field easier to grasp.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 9 Mar. 2020
• That bandwidth, though, as the Grossmont High School alum coined it, was tested like never before.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Global warming: The lab that coined the term has slowed its work during the coronavirus outbreak.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
• The Roman satirist Juvenal coined the phrase in his biting Tenth Satire: panem et circenses.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 22 Jan. 2020
• The incident led the Hunting Team to coin a term for the premature exposure of a weakness in a ransomware strain.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
• Trump has famously coined nicknames for his opponents but hasn’t been on the receiving end of a moniker that has stuck.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• Karissa Schaudt, colorist at Chicago's Maxine Salon, coined the term, and predicts the shade will be huge for 2020.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2020
• The word altruism was coined around 1830 by French philosopher August Comte, as the opposite of egoism.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
• Experts have been forced to coin a new term for fires exceeding 1 million acres: gigafire.
  — ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2024
• Media coined breakdancing to explain the form more broadly.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
• Mandy sets out to find the owner of the book, letter, and coin with the help of Jonah (Bradford B. Johnson), a contractor who first came upon and donated the book.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• There’s a new putter hitting the market – coined Face The Hole – that takes this putting style as its foundation, but modernizes it with a super-long shaft.
  — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Any number of efforts in what was known as citizen diplomacy—a term coined earlier in the decade—sprouted at the same time.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024