coffin
Example Sentences
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GREENVILLE, N.C.—Nine people are being placed in coffins with provisions including pillows, carbon-dioxide monitors and snacks, then lowered into the earth and covered with packed dirt.
The first mission saw the players set out on boats to retrieve floating coffins, dozens of which were spread out over a nearby loch.
From BBC
The Escalade IQ looks like the coffin of a prized racehorse.
"I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid," she later recalled.
From BBC
As their coffins rested in the hearse, we began to sing “Am Yisrael Chai,” the anthem of the Soviet Jewry movement.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
