Example sentences for: coinage

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

  • And Fallovian ? In this case, the contextual evidence suggested that Michael Lewis' coinage fell into the class of eponym known as a "derivative"--in this case, derived from a name, that of James Fallows, editor of U.S.

  • 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.

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

  • After all, coinage and currency usually reflect the character of the issuing state, and in this case the state is largely bureaucratic.

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


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