coffin in the PONS Dictionary

coffin Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be a nail in sb's/sth's coffin
to be a nail in sb's/sth's coffin

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
They are usually living doors or gateways, such as wooden doors and coffins with arms.
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The people who did this left the bodies in a road and stole the coffins.
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In the 1980s the church was turned into a night club and all the coffins removed from the vaults.
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The live passenger rates rose to 7s 5d in first class and 2s 6d in third class, with equivalent changes to the fares for coffins.
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He also ordered that bodies should be buried in unmarked graves, without coffins or embalming.
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These enterprises carried everything from pins to coffins plus running a creamery.
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Today, the tomb with a capstone from 1847, contains six coffins.
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A cross of lilies was at the head and roses covered the coffin's lower half.
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Today many tourists buy miniature coffins, about 3to30cm in long, as souvenirs or good luck charms.
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The pyre has dolls in coffins hung on it.
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