Jeff Buckley

I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.

American Musician

Nigel Pearson

I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists - I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.

English Coach

Ville Valo

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Finnish Musician

H. L. Mencken

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

American Writer

Henry Ward Beecher

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

American Clergyman

Alexandra Daddario

That's a very scary thing to think about, being trapped in a coffin.

American Actress

Fred Allen

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

American Comedian

Christian Nestell Bovee

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

American Author

Bertolt Brecht

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

German Poet

John Philpot Curran

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

Irish Public Servant

The term 'coffin' is used in formal contexts or discussions about death and funerals.

Often Formal

Talking about coffins can be sensitive, as it relates to death which is a delicate subject for many.

Cultural Sensitivity

The word 'coffin' often evokes strong visual imagery and can be used metaphorically to represent the end.

Visual Imagery

Coffining is a significant step in many funeral rites, signifying the finality of death.

Ritual Significance

Use 'coffin' as a verb carefully; it is rare and may sound strange in everyday conversation.

Reserved Usage

In engineering, 'coffin' describes a protective case and carries no death-related meaning.

Technical Context

'Coffin' in a technical sense is specific to certain industries and might confuse those unfamiliar with the jargon.

Industry-Specific

 I will be the best attraction. Can you see how easy it is to talk people into coffins, to misspell their names on gravestones. And people still wonder why there are boys rotting, they go away in high school hallways they are afraid of becoming another hashtag in a second

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 heaven and why should it be easier for the rich to avoid a long time in purgatory than it is for the poor he thinks it's way too much about money and too little about god when priests sell letters of indulgence with slogans such as when the coin in the coffin clings

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 If you want a glimpse of Marie Curie's manuscripts, you'll have to sign a waiver and put on protective gear to shield yourself from radiation contamination. Madame Curie's remains, too, were interred in a lead-lined coffin,

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 restaurant owner this passenger plane for an international businessman the lion commemorates a powerful tribal chief of the rooster humble farmer each coffin celebrates the life of a loved one I think I need more work for

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 So it's really the last nail in the coffin. There's hardly any nests that have chicks on them. So each one of those chicks is very, very precious. Every day we were going to that colony, you see all these empty nests.

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 communicating maybe all the people who said he was dead just didn't know our secrets and I was the only one who knew that he didn't die on the third day they put him in the coffin and buried him in the ground

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 was mummified which the Egyptians believed would allow him to live on after death but he was denied any of the protective magic which would allow him to reach the next world but the coffin

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 go moment of truth oh that's not good got a lot of failures here we got a problem we need to really know if it's an emergency they pretty soon you realize you're in this metal coffin

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 they have been there for centuries without coffins without wrappings some believe they were moved from the original resting place hidden away by priests to protect them from tomb

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 who arose from the dead to live again as king of the afterlife. Ancient Egyptians painted the symbol on the bottom of coffins and wrapped the mummy with djed amulets