Example sentences for: coffin

How can you use “coffin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Judgment day is getting closer and closer," Pat Buchanan warns ( McLaughlin Group ). Buchanan and McLaughlin identify Clinton's political victory in the week (Starr looked like a partisan bully) and his legal defeat (what Starr pulled from Monica's mom is another nail in the coffin).

  • In 1997, Clinton drove dozens of nails into the coffin: The bill he signed created six different capital-gains rates, two kinds of IRAs, and so on.

  • And the Coffin Fellowship Program provides money for attorneys who do domestic relations work.

  • 8. Coffin nail is a later allusion to `cigarette': in its earlier metaphoric life it referred to anything that might serve to drive one to an early grave; indeed, some early Western saloons sold tokens bearing the words “coffin nail” stamped on them which were good for a shot of redeye.


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