coffin

Example Sentences

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“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

“Paul McCartney: Man on the Run” revisits this period when the former Beatle’s music was often dismissed and he was cast as a villain who drove the final nail into his old group’s coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The dearth of public transport is another nail in the coffin of the sputtering economy.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

Behind us, Don Berto’s sons carried the coffin on their shoulders and didn’t set it down all the way there.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago