How to Use coffin in a Sentence

coffin

noun
  • These coffin things and all that stuff?
    — Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The spon-con on the coffin took me out!
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Damn, that is one janky coffin.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Even his tiny coffin was draped with a union jack.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Iran may have been the final nail in the coffin.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • There was a coffin with speakers in it.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • His coffin was placed inside the crypt of the church.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This shape is a blend between a square and a coffin shape.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The nail in the coffin was the Pre-Raphaelites.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Bridges had nightmares about that coffin.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Around that time, a body was moved out of a local morgue, and a coffin was burned.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
  • That could be the nail in the coffin for Curaçao.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 June 2026
  • Tom checks the coffin and Richard has been reduced to bone and ash.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 27 May 2026
  • It was supposed to start with who comes out of that crystal coffin, right?
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 May 2023
  • Yet another nail in the coffin of our species.
    — Philip Maymin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • And maybe that goal will end up being one of the final nails in the coffin, too.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Children’s coffins were carried next to those of their parents.
    — Fares Akram, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
  • Long almond, coffin, or stiletto shapes are even more high-tone.
    — Chloé Valentine Toscano, Allure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Stunt drivers would jump chasms, hop in exploding coffins, or crash planes.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • His coffin was simple and his grave unmarked.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Whoever has a coffin in their grave at the end of things, is up for murder.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The morgue that serves La Guaira is makeshift—a white tent on a dock lined with body bags and coffins.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • Denis was behind her in the coffin, his head inches from hers.
    — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • To mimic the sensations of a coffin, choose a dark space and a firm place to rest.
    — Julia Ries Wexler, Outside, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The coffins signifies death to the slave master or to the overseer.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Murdaugh took the stand himself, which was the final nail in the coffin.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 27 May 2023
  • But the real heart of the festival is the coffin races.
    — Libby Smith, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Once the execution was over, their bodies were each placed in plain pine coffins.
    — David Martin, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • It’s now reserved for monarch funerals, when it is placed atop the coffin.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Buckets at the foot of the coffins overflowed with flowers, and bouquets lay across the floor.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026

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