coffin

Example Sentences

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Sandra also asked for her coffin to be in her favourite colour, royal blue.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

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

It was returned to DRC authorities in a coffin during an official ceremony in 2022 in a bid to turn a page on the grim chapter of its colonial past.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

Then they started calling the Central Valley the Pacific Dust Bowl, and that put the last nail in the region’s coffin.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman