The word 'coffin' is a correct and commonly used term in written English.
A coffin is a box or case in which a dead body is buried or cremated. It is typically made of wood or metal and has a hinged lid for easy access. You can use the word 'coffin' in a variety of settings, including literature, funeral ceremonies, and everyday conversations. For example: - The old woman's coffin was adorned with beautiful flowers at her funeral. - The detective opened the coffin to reveal the stash of stolen jewelry. - The smell of rotting flesh emanated from the coffin in the abandoned house. - The author described the protagonist as lying in a coffin, surrounded by darkness and silence.
(It may have banged another nail into the coffin of elected local authorities with its suggestion that electoral officials need closer central supervision and more uniform standards).
We were caterpillars, greedy worms condemned to toil on earth; the chrysalis was our coffin, but the butterfly's miraculous emergence symbolised the possibility of an afterlife, a chance for our souls to ascend to heaven.
The first goal conceded at Tannadice during the Uefa Cup run was pretty much the final nail in the coffin.
If the contents of the containers seems too good to be true – the US version featured a "gimp" in a cage, a Breaking Bad-style meth lab, a voodoo death ritual den and an (empty) coffin – then it can presumably be attributed to the "magic" of television.
The coffin was accompanied to a grave by a phalanx of uniformed young soldiers, many in tears.
If you die in Hungary, fear not: from Wednesday the state will reportedly provide a free grave, coffin or urn – and even a free shovel for gravedigging – to poorer sections of society.
– David Cameron, who had to move his jubilee party indoors as rain soaked Downing Street "It was thought I would not look elegant in the Lycra" – London mayor Boris Johnson explaining why he turned down the offer of an oar on Gloriana for a place on the Havengore, the launch which carried the coffin of Winston Churchill to his funeral.
The verdict of one viewer, an actor, was that it was "like watching a coffin warp".
Thanks to the cameras, it was possible to glimpse all sorts of revealingly human moments: the sweat on the brow of a pallbearer after piloting the coffin up the steps of St Paul's; the sudden, muttered aside of the Queen to the Duke of Edinburgh as the coffin itself passed by; the concentration on the face of a boy-treble as the choir sang the anthem from the Fauré Requiem.
Havel's wife Dagmar, who was with her husband until the last, arrived dressed in black with dark sunglasses to place roses on the coffin.
The final nail in the Sunderland coffin arrived in the familiar shape of Cascarino, his 92nd-minute goal giving Gillingham an extra away goal, and although Keith Bertschin would score a winner on the day with 12 minutes remaining, Gillingham progressed to the final on the away-goals rule (the aggregate score ended at 6-6, in case you lost count).
