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    Use "coffin" in a sentence

    coffin example sentences

    coffin


    coffined


    coffins


    1. All relatives are in her old house, while she is lying inside a coffin on the big table


    2. I lay prone in a metal coffin slung underneath a flat-bed truck, sheathed and bound, breathing with difficulty through my nose because of the tape over my mouth


    3. The heat was unbearable, and after an hour or so in the coffin I had no strength left for order and cohesion


    4. Our procession toured the narrow passageways before we laid the coffin, drowning in flowers, amongst the yellow-headed parsley in the valley


    5. The final nail in the coffin lid was the sight of Rose’s older sister


    6. behind her mother’s coffin through the spare and bleak snow-


    7. The final nail in the coffin lid


    8. I immediately found that I was in a very confined area, nothing more than a box, a very low, narrow box, about the size of a coffin


    9. He would love to stop and have a long cold pint of cider, letting the close confines of old wood and brass wrap him up like a corpse in a coffin, somewhere to rest and sleep, but he has to get home


    10. the coffin at Homecoming had backfired

    11. his arms pressed against his sides, like a corpse in a coffin, partly because of the


    12. soaked and sweat ran down his face like he had been trapped in a coffin for hours


    13. Our radar can tell if there is so much as a coffin six feet under to hide in for a hundred miles in all directions


    14. We carried it the way you carry in a coffin


    15. Even though the only inhabitants of the tavern were; Alec, Solo Ki, a pimp, his three whores, and the barkeep, the tiny inn seemed more cramped and uncomfortable than sitting in a coffin


    16. They approached the coffin with Glen, whose tears were streaming down his face, unchecked


    17. Alex, dirt masking her face, shivered and looked up at Russell from the bottom of the six-foot hole, still standing in the inside of the coffin


    18. The coffin was placed among the barrels of oil in the ship’s hold


    19. After the previous experience, when he had literally become boxed in to something coffin sized, L-Seven-Six claimed it had been a residual effect of the blocking field, causing distortion to signal-feed updates


    20. who didn’t see that coffin being lowered into the ground as anything more than polished wood and

    21. "But what about the service, and the coffin, and


    22. At least, most of it did, if you ignore the accident with the coffin that is


    23. Unfortunately the red and white stripes of the road cones clashed outrageously with the cardboard coffin he'd made, having painted it a bright fluorescent-green with a job-lot of paint pinched from somewhere


    24. Looking down, I saw that Aunt Martha was laying on the wet grass with a serene smile on her face, looking for all the world as though she'd just fallen asleep, instead of having just fallen through the bottom of the soggy cardboard coffin


    25. Stan's stern face grew even sterner when I discreetly kicked Aunt Martha into the grave, dropping the remains of the coffin in on top of her


    26. "He looked younger somehow, after he was laid out in the coffin," I said, sotto voce


    27. This is a bed, not a coffin


    28. Realising his comrade was dead; he lifted his dead body off his coffin of death


    29. She seemed particularly affected by the sight of the little coffin your cat was allegedly buried in


    30. inmates carried the coffin to the grave site

    31. Police hunt for Tsunami coffin thieves


    32. The priest slowly genuflected over the closed coffin causing his mother to hysterically throw herself on top of it


    33. Cremation serves as an alternative to the traditional body in a coffin


    34. Normally, the remains are covered in a sheet or shroud only and buried without a coffin


    35. First, the coffin, “burn box or container” burns away very quickly to ash which is collected in the crematoria filters


    36. The massive flames first consume the coffin from the top


    37. I would actually insist to view the body at the graveyard, just to make sure it is in fact my loved one in the coffin, stranger things have happened you know


    38. A friend or family member who is a religious person, trusted by the family may speak a few words while the coffin is being lowered into the grave


    39. No flowers or hands full of dirt are thrown onto the coffin


    40. The family then takes the shovels and proceed to cover the coffin, right to the top of the grave

    41. How many funerals have you attended where the preacher said: “Here lies John Doe, dead in his coffin, truly a wonderful day for his wife and children and society in general! He abused his wife, beat her senseless her from time to time, rented out his children and broke his children’s bones when they were only two months old because they cried


    42. Concerning the funeral staff, you don’t even have to have them at the cemetery, but I would suggest that you do as they are professional and also possess the required equipment and skill to lower the coffin into the grave with dignity


    43. If you do this yourself, prepare very carefully as you don’t want to have the coffin slipping and falling into the grave


    44. The only answer here is: I feel better, we feel better, but the body in the coffin does not have any “feelings”


    45. Nonetheless, when we were at the funeral parlour and had to choose a coffin, I replied: “The very best there is as he (dad) is paying for it himself”


    46. She, “the newly appointed common law wife” and “caretaker” of my fathers estate, decided to take the second cheapest coffin in the funeral parlour


    47. (If there is somebody, familiar with the regulations in South-Africa on this subject, please let me know, I would appreciate it very much) I know that Muslims don’t bury in a coffin, but only in a shroud


    48. Joseph’s body was first embalmed and then placed in a coffin


    49. Gen 50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt


    50. Remember however that even if no one says a word and the coffin is just lowered into the grave, it is still fine, because trust me, nothing said at the funeral or thereafter makes one iota difference to the deceased in terms of the afterlife, nothing, nada!














































    1. Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words


    2. God would punish her for marrying him when he really loved upon his coffined face


    3. Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale


    1. I’ve got three cryo-atom-slice coffins still operating that can copy out souls, but there are few who bring their dead up here any more, at least few that get here in time for me to get a viable read-out


    2. Once again, Abdu was standing at the front of the games room with a large collection of dead bodies, some of them in coffins


    3. lines of coffins would remain, until there was a place suitable to which they could be committed


    4. She was wearing it the day she looked up into his face and made it plain that if he didn’t want to end up in one of his own coffins, he would carry on supplying them with the services they paid him for


    5. This isn’t the Wild West) - Takuapa District Police are on the lookout for two former cemetery workers who allegedly confessed to stealing eleven aluminium coffins which were intended for Tsunami victims


    6. The coffins were stored at Bang Maruan Cemetery


    7. The coffins are worth 400,000 Baht but unlikely to be bought as coffins


    8. The coffins were bought by the Thailand Tsunami Victim Identification centre out of the 88 million baht joint donation from countries whose nationals perished in the disaster


    9. The line of coffins stretched far ahead of them, each one carried on a small wagon pulled by farm horses and ponies


    10. Maggie’s eyes clouded with tears as the men came and began to lower the coffins into the ground

    11. 63 The children of Israel also brought up, each man his father's coffin with him, and each man the coffins of his tribe


    12. 38 And it was in those days, when the children of Israel were dwelling securely in their cities, that they buried the coffins of the tribes of their ancestors, which they had brought up from Egypt, each man in the inheritance of his children, the twelve sons of Jacob did the children of Israel bury, each man in the possession of his children


    13. At their edges, two coffins, one rather smaller than the other, neither particularly heavy


    14. 63 The children of Israel also brought up each man his father's coffin with him and each man the coffins of his tribe


    15. 38 And it was in those days when the children of Israel were dwelling securely in their cities that they buried the coffins of the tribes of their ancestors which they had brought up from Egypt each man in the inheritance of his children the twelve sons of Jacob did the children of Israel bury each man in the possession of his children


    16. For example strigoi don’t need to suck blood and they don’t wear capes and live in coffins, and the lycanthropes aren’t very wolf-like in appearance


    17. The Borrascosa cellar was a cemetery of useless things and memories cloistered in pasteboard coffins wrapped up in naphthalene clouds under the dust layers which insisted on hiding the true color of the forms, granting to all of them a uniform grayish coloration


    18. I imagine it will be some time before they help you to unearth more coffins containing members of my tribe


    19. He included the broken coffins of his subordinate aids, rent by the past invasion of the stone trolls


    20. One by one the tombs glowed; they were the most beautiful coffins anyone could lay their eyes on

    21. At the end of his lamp’s beam, he could see two rectangular boxes that looked like wooden coffins


    22. When he got within ten yards of them, he took the flame thrower from his shoulder and leveled it at the coffins


    23. He held his finger on the lever and kept it there as he saw the coffins engulfed in flames


    24. His closed his eyes for an instant when he heard the human-like screams coming from the coffins


    25. He released his finger from the lever and stood there watching the coffins as they turned into a stack of charred wood and ashes


    26. Was that them? Should he have opened the coffins and made sure before destroying them? Were there others in here with them? When he finally reached the opening, he saw that it was now dark outside


    27. Sleeping in Coffins? It’s not a mandate


    28. It showed the coffins parading along the High Street with Union Flags draped over them and a full military escort and full honours


    29. From where Grailem is standing the room looks full of coffins that are stacked on shelving, one on top of the other until they reach the ceiling ten metres above


    30. The Vampires that were out of their coffins counting beans and untying knots shrieked and scrambled back into their coffins

    31. There was a lot of light now and they could see about twenty coffins strewn about the room


    32. The coffins all around them started creaking open


    33. The coffins creaked open again and the Vampires started getting out


    34. At his command, the mayor appeared at the services with four funeral wreaths, which he tried to place on the coffins, but the colonel ordered him into the street


    35. The last veterans of whom he had word had appeared photographed in a newspaper with their faces shamelessly raised beside an anonymous president of the republic who gave them buttons with his likeness on them to wear in their lapels and returned to them a flag soiled with blood and gunpowder so that they could place it on their coffins


    36. The bodies were placed in identical coffins, and then it could be seen that once more in death they had become as Identical as they had been until adolescence


    37. In the tumult of the last moment, the sad drunkards who carried them out of the house got the coffins mixed up and buried them in the wrong graves


    38. However, by this time many had dropped out of the lawsuit – coffins aren’t allowed in the court – and now we were stuck with a handful, about thirty or less


    39. The troopships were turned in a mere thirty seconds into large flying coffins for the ISF troopers, with only a few rare crewmembers surviving in a handful of still pressurized compartments


    40. They left against the father’s wishes, but returned three months later in plain wooden coffins

    41. coffins at conferences, all point to a ruling party that has no compass of


    42. Three coffins were arranged in the great hall, they belonged to the Immortal Divine Dragon, Red Flag Escort Agency Sima


    43. But when he saw the three coffins, his


    44. “This is the coffins of Mentor Master, Uncle Sima


    45. The servants entered and bore the coffins away


    46. found the Steward relaying his orders concerning the two coffins


    47. It screamed outside the walls and over the crystal coffins of the gritich buried alive in the ice


    48. Like coffins, boxes purchase, seal and bury the dead, but sharing opens The Table; a shared table opens the heart; open hearts share a table of love


    49. Graveyards are the life killing golf courses of the dead, with greens between tombstone flags marking the holes for one manicured and fumigated by the petrochemicals of mower, fertilizer and herbicide poisoning the lawns choking on the off gassing toxic chemical coffins seeping with the sterilizing fluids of an uninhabitable decomposition


    50. I found out the gypsies that traveled with him were actually part of his coven and that they all slept in coffins










































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    Synonyms for "coffin"

    casket coffin

    "coffin" definitions

    box in which a corpse is buried or cremated


    place into a coffin