Example sentences for: coinage

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

  • Repetition of meaningful phrases (like Heller's own coinage, "catch-22") tends to drain them of meaning.

  • This curiously curt coinage, based on cathartic, at least has the merit of getting out of the usual humdrum -ize rut.

  • It is just curious that what one might assume to be a fairly obvious coinage cannot be documented to an earlier date.

  • This would logically appear to be a technical psychological coinage useful for referring to a personality or condition that is excessively rigid or stubborn.

  • Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.


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