coffer

Example Sentences

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Yiu is the best-funded candidate in the race, with more than $1 million in her coffer — much of which came from her own pocket, according to California secretary of state records.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

They erected a temporary wooden coffer dam in 1907 at the lake’s mouth, raising the water by 10 feet — just enough to make the existing road unusable.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2022

That’s because DoorDash uses my tip money—money I think I’m giving to the delivery person directly—to cover the worker’s base pay, thereby reducing what DoorDash has to pay out of its own coffer.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2019

So, for me, this method is the way that I can create a linear, concise logic tool expression out of that overflowing coffer of data, this musical data, conceptual data, compositional data.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2017

“They say he brought a coffer of gemstones the size of a dowry chest.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor