Sentence examples for coffin nail from inspiring English sources

To capture voters in coal country and smokestack towns, he needs an old-fashioned coffin nail.

Nuneaton just before 2am felt like the coffin nail that confirmed the exit poll's accuracy.

Wendy Lesser hit the coffin nail on the head with her great analysis of "Six Feet Under" and "The Sopranos".

But apart from that, it hit the coffin nail on the head.In this section Is this the year growth takes off?

But in ideal politics — the realm Mr. Obama often purports to speak for — the meeting could mean another coffin nail for public financing.

Mostly that device works, but it is a little strange to hear Scrooge (Philip Goodwin) give voice to the author's thoughts on the expression "dead as a doornail," that a doornail is no more dead than, say, a coffin nail.

Cigarettes were "coffin nails".

In America, cigarettes have been referred to as "coffin nails" for more than a century.

The team also uncovered iron forks and pottery shards, handmade glass buttons and pieces of other clay pipes — and coffin nails.

You bring the bar nuts, cocktail napkins, and swizzle sticks, I'll tell the dirty jokes until the coffin nails run out or I fall off the stool.

A hearse overturned on the autobahn near Duisburg, smashing a coffin and ejecting a corpse onto the roadway, along with a bag of coffin nails, the authorities said.