Example sentences for: coinage

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

  • Curious among the many curiosities in this entertaining work: the World War II coinage snafu gets only two and a half pages.

  • Chatterbox at first felt sure that bumfuzzled was a coinage of Clinton's, like (but more colorful than) Warren Harding's coinage of "normalcy."

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

  • The phrase "the American century" was the coinage of Henry Luce, who in 1941 declared the United States "the intellectual, scientific, and artistic capital of the world."

  • Credit for this year's coinage apparently goes to Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, who made ads for Phil Gramm during the primaries and now works for Bob Dole.


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