coffin in English

noun
1
a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a corpse is buried or cremated.
Dead persons are buried in coffins on the grounds of a church or are cremated and have their ashes buried in the graveyard.
synonyms:casketsarcophagusboxwooden overcoat
verb
1
put (a dead body) in a coffin.
While the embalmed heart was returned to the chest of the deceased, the other organs were separately packaged, coffined , and stored.
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "coffin" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "coffin", or refer to the context using the word "coffin" in the English Dictionary.

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3. Coffin.

4. I found a coffin.

5. Doctor, did you find the coffin?

6. Puffins in the coffin munch muffins.

7. What was in that coffin?

8. The mourners filed past the coffin.

9. EnCoffined (Adjective) Enclosed in a coffin

10. We draped the flag round the coffin.

11. The coffin was placed in the grave.

12. The coffin lid had been nailed down.

13. I carried the coffin of Cesar Chavez.

14. She said, “Open the coffin, hurry up.

15. The coffin closed with a dull thud.

16. They bore the coffin into the church.

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18. A procession of mourners slowly followed the coffin.

19. Four soldiers stood guard over the coffin.

20. The coffin was slid into the waiting hearse.

21. Soldiers get a flag draped across their coffin.

22. Yuya's large outer coffin as discovered in 1905.

23. There were two large wreaths on the coffin.

24. The coffin is there, at least, pieces of it.

25. What does enCoffined mean? Enclosed in a coffin

26. Here, below the castle, is a coffin where...

27. The body was sealed in a lead coffin.

28. Hallie, who put the cactus roses on Tom's coffin?

29. The lid of the coffin had been nailed down.

30. The makeshift coffin lay on trestles before the altar.

31. Coffin was shaving while drinking a mug of coffee.

32. I wake up in my coffin, dark, vacuity and silence.

33. They are a cross between a coffin and a barracuda.

34. A funeral litter: They placed the coffin on the Bier

35. A crowd of women followed the coffin, weeping and wailing.

36. Within sounded a psalm ; a coffin , decked with flowers .

37. The coffin was drawn by horses with black plumes.

38. Michael threw his handful of dirt onto the coffin.

39. A steady procession of people filed past the coffin.

40. She stood dazed and weak-kneed beside the coffin.

41. 16 The body was sealed in a lead coffin.

42. 19 Michael threw his handful of dirt onto the coffin.

43. I would think you were still seeing the coffin off.

44. The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him.

45. He was a coffin/pall bearer at his father's funeral.

46. They passed me hack and forth over his open coffin.

47. A last case in point: Bluenoses and coffin nails book

48. Without his help, you'd still be in that glass coffin.

49. That report drove the final nail in the company's coffin.

50. 18 We lifted the coffin with ease from the sticks.