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Example sentences for: coinage
How can you use “coinage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Chatterbox at first felt sure that bumfuzzled was a coinage of Clinton's, like (but more colorful than) Warren Harding's coinage of "normalcy."
Bald Pates is almost self-explanatory, being a name used in Kent rural areas for silver Roman coinage ploughed up, found in barrows, etc., and possibly referring to the poor design or baldness of the effigy on some of the coins.
For the followers of Andrew Jackson, the destruction of the Second Bank of the United States was the panacea; for the disciples of William Jennings Bryan, the panacea was silver coinage; for the followers of Ronald Reagan, supply-side economics was the crackpot quick fix.
Very likely a facetious coinage, this appeared in quotation marks (attributing an AE source) in New Scientist , a British journal.
The hyphens that separate -athon from the base morpheme is most new usages surely are self-conscious attempts to call attention to the wit invested in the coinage, like parsley atop a casserole of leftovers.