coffin English

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coffin Noun

— A coffin is a box used to keep the dead body of a person. The family of Mary were very hurt to see her laying in her coffin. After Mary's funeral was over, they took her coffin out of the church.

coffin

— noun box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

— verb place into a coffin her body was coffined

Synonyms coffin synonyms

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coffin English » English

casket

box

bier

chest

trunk

sarcophagus

grave

case

vessel

trough

tomb

shielding tank

shielded cask

sepulchral

receptacle

pall

package

litter

hearse

groove

gearbox

funerary box

footlocker

drawer

deathly

crate

container, ferry, vessel, vat, trough, tub, manger

container

coffin-spark

coffer

cemetary

cask

cartons

boxes

bottle bank

beer

bandbox

Topics coffin topics

What do people use coffin to talk about?

Person Life Die

Bury

• What is used to protect a body?
  grave clothes shroud coffin casket sarcophagus urn

Examples coffin examples

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Simple sentences

The beautiful widow stood by the coffin, her eyes veiled with tears.

A black coffin lay on the ground.

With heads respectfully bowed, they carried the coffin up the steps and into the small chapel.

Until my coffin closes I will be your faithful spouse.

I won't willingly give up this house. I'll leave it either in handcuffs or in a coffin!

Tom doesn't sleep in a coffin like most vampires.

The coffin was loaded into the hearse.

Tom looked into the coffin.

The coffin was empty.

The leaden coffin was covered by a rich purple pall, on which was embroidered in gold the Canterville coat-of-arms.

A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin.

Movie subtitles

Then. what kind of material should we use for the coffin?

Since the coffin is about to leave, why don't you go to the burial ground.

Why don't you give a bowl of alcohol to the coffin bearers?

It's as if she came from nowhere and has been invisible until the coffin burst open.

At which point the coffin was sealed?

That was the last direct contact I had with the coffin.

Reverend, were you ever alone with Declan's coffin once it arrived here on the morning of the funeral?

The, um- the woman in the coffin. I didn't actually see her, but I've heard said she was Asian.

We're just clarifying a few timelines around Declan's coffin.

And were you ever alone at any point with the coffin?

Until you saw Declan's coffin?

In the coffin, apparently it was hard to tell.

How else do you get out of a sealed coffin?

Well, given that she was last seen playing out a fantasy and then ended up in a dead gardener's coffin, it seems unlikely.

She would not have jumped out of the coffin even if you came to work.

Boards for a coffin. 2.15.

For the hay the ploughing the seeds the harrow the grain the potatoes and the coffin.

The sobbing women, the first clod of earth on the coffin.

So, there's drugs in the coffin!

You think I don't know a dead man when I see one and him laying in his coffin?

You're the sort who doesn't get into trouble, until they nail the lid down on your coffin.

This boy should be in his coffin, for my part.

To the coffin?

Get this. Check the coffin through to Dayton.

Where's that coffin?

Coffin?

I want that coffin, get me?

He means the coffin.

But no coffin's gonna get me.

I kissed her as she lay there in the coffin.

He'll be with the troops that go in front of the gun carriage with the Queen's coffin.

Carry the coffin to the temple.

The coffin?

The happiest day of my life will be when I can spit in his coffin.

In your coffin, Gavrila, I put my heart as well.

I'll bet someday you try on my coffin.

Someone has broken into the coffin.

That other one, she's in her coffin. but she struggles to come out, to prey on us.

We put her in that coffin alive.

News and current affairs

We know these creatures' apotheosis, Dracula, as a vampire from Transylvania, a bat-like person with long canine teeth who lies in a coffin during the day and bites necks and drinks blood for sustenance.

And the euro's appreciation in recent years - driven in part by the European Central Bank's excessively tight monetary policy - was the final nail in the competitiveness coffin.

And, when some of the IMF's largest debtors (Brazil and Argentina) began to prepay their debts a few years ago with no new borrowers in sight, it looked like the final nail in the coffin had been struck.

Recent developments in molecular biology have put the final nail in the coffin of traditional genetic determinism.

The final nail in the coffin was the appreciation of the euro between 2002 and 2008.

In the late 1980's, glasnost - transparency - was one of the nails in the coffin of the Soviet Union.

The image of young Caroline - the inspiration for Neil Diamond's famous song - solemnly standing beside her three-year-old brother as he saluted his father's coffin is deeply engrained in the hearts of Japan's people.

While I do not believe that a West Bank-Jordan confederation could ever be a viable option, it might be the last nail in the coffin of a two-state solution.