Example sentences for: coining

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

  • Lord Kelvin is credited with coining mho by reversing the spelling of ohm .

  • Admittedly I have given in to temptation in coining the term “bound and gagged morpheme”--the temptation of wit.

  • Also, eponymous terms allow almost anyone to display competence, even brilliance, at coining useful and appropriate-sounding new words--thereby encouraging further attempts to do so.

  • Sunday's NYT front had a home run piece by Jill Abramson detailing the current investigation fad in Washington, along the way coining a good phrase for it.

  • He excels at coining pithy phrases and metaphors that express anew the power of Darwinian theory.


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