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33 examples of Coffins in a sentence

In Vietnam, elderly recipients used their cash transfers to pay for coffins.
I don't know if I would have chosen to give food or equipment or coffins, which begs the question: How good are we at allocating resources on behalf of the poor?
Son of a bitch," and below that were flag-draped coffins coming back from Vietnam.
And he was confronted by this scene: a line of coffins coming down a hill, relatives wailing.
Can you see how easy it is to talk people into coffins, to misspell their names on gravestones.
Imagine a two meter by two meter area full of coffins, jewelry and incredible statuary.
The diffuser must be wall-mounted, but the walls are crowded with coffins, which you don’t dare disturb.
The vampires, sensing the intrusion, burst from their coffins and turn to dust in the light.
One of the most dramatic manifestations of these improvements will be moving from population pyramids to what we might term population coffins.
We talked about the practical stuff, the stuff no one prepares you for: dealing with government agencies, hospitals, nursing homes, advanced care directives, funeral directors and extended family members, (Laughter) making decisions about coffins, headstones, headstone wording, headstone font size, all while sleep-deprived.
I have carried, kissed, written on and toasted coffins with a shot of ouzo.
When the captain declares the ships cargo is a load of coffins from "The Transylvania Station" you know this is all a put-on.
Soon enough the voice of Vincent Price comes on, and zombies start crawling out the earth and open coffins from the graveyard, and Michael and the Girl are obviously surrounded.
Our hero meets them in Main Street behind a wagon loaded with three coffins.
The movie accurately portrays the grim realities of Russian army that have made it infamous: "dedovshina" (officers and NCOs physically harassing, beating and humiliating younger recruits), mixed character of war (you can trade with your enemy one day and kill him the next), life of women at the front lines, documentary footages of helicopter assaults, and coffins being soldered and sent home in heave C-130 Hercules class Russian cargo planes with tracer to jam Stinger missiles, fatigue, boredom, anti-war sentiment, emotional side simply put.
Patricia Hunter: Oh, professor, do you also make a habit of collecting coffins?
They sleep in coffins because, as Lugosi explains to a doubtful young female reporter (Luana Walters), a coffin is much more comfortable than a bed.
They both like to sleep in coffins.
"Coffins are for being laid to rest, not for being laid."
A young man meets this sinister man and sees how he handled the coffins.
I didn't like Isabelle Huppert's other bad-sex movie, La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher), but Ma Mere easily trumps it for complete badness by making all the sex, befoulment, incest and masturbation over coffins entirely gratuitous.
Bodies are disappearing from coffins; a lady in lavender has sex with men in the graveyard and then stabs them to death; little midgets in brown cloaks (making sounds like lions) are roaming about and there's a flying silver orb with spikes that embeds itself in people's heads!
After all, even with the secrecy that usually surrounds Russian military losses, it will be hard to temper public discontent once the coffins start coming home.
Similarly, it was only through the use of the Freedom of Information Act that the dramatic photographs of the coffins of US soldiers coming home were finally made public.
But protecting employment was not their main motivation; after all, beginning in 1727, they did allow non-religious texts to be printed, despite protests by calligraphers, who responded to the edict by putting their inkstands and pencils in coffins and marching to the High Porte in Istanbul.
Rapid demographic decline has been brought to a halt since the turn of the century (a time when coffins outnumbered cribs by seven to four), as generous government subsidies for a third child have boosted the fertility rate from its 1999 low of 1.16 children per woman to 1.58 in 2010.
The Hazaras reacted to the attack by making the coffins of the dead a symbol of protest.
I've had enough of it; I'd rather see you all put in your coffins, like him that's gone already."
Three coffins, one of oak, one of mahogany, one of lead.
"Well then," he said, "you want to see the tombs - graves - folks been buried, you know - coffins!""You are an untruther," I replied, getting roused; "I do not want to see tombs - not your tombs.