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

Several hundred people also gathered in the chapel car park as her coffin was removed from a horse drawn carriage and taken inside.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

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

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

During the ceremony, uniformed soldiers silently carried a flag-draped coffin from a C-17 aircraft to a transfer vehicle while Vance, Hegseth and Caine saluted.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

“And they’ve got to be real careful lifting a cadaver out of a coffin, to keep it from coming apart.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck