Example sentences for: coined

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

  • One possibility is etymonym (pronounced ehTYM-o-nym), using the coined combining form etymo- (from the Greek etymon meaning the true meaning of a word, which derives from etymos meaning true or real).

  • Serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole from the fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip (the ancient name for Ceylon), who often set sail for one destination and found something even better, by fortunate accident.

  • This is not pro bono legal work; it is "low bono," a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.

  • " 'When I cleverly coined the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism."

  • Many years ago, the editor of this magazine, who was then the editor of the New Republic , coined an aphorism for political influence peddlers who defended their shady methods on the grounds that they didn't violate the law.


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