coffin

Example Sentences

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Dutifully but vacantly, he keeps an all-night vigil by her coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“It’s just, if you will, another nail in the coffin of us standing in the world.”

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Rivka said she could not hug her mother or throw earth to cover her father's coffin, an important ritual in Judaism.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Visible blemishes on the surface of the Sun seemed to be yet another nail in the coffin of Aristotelian heavenly perfection.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin