Sentence examples for it a coffin from inspiring English sources

I call it a coffin; it was a copper tub, not quite long enough to accommodate my height.

In it, a coffin is borne aloft through the square, while men in fatigues chant, "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" Even in this moment of expressing solidarity, they were already overstaying their welcome.

Common examples of these are: "What grows bigger the more you take from it?"—"A hole"; and "The man who made it did not want it; the man who bought it did not use it; the man who used it did not know it"—"A coffin".

One obvious musical parallel would be receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Brits – "Oh, I'm in that box now: is it a display case, or is it a coffin?" Whereas the academic world offers the backslapping template of the festschrift.

Inside the aluminum container -- military officials were careful not to call it a coffin -- were remains believed to be those of Dr. Dean's brother Charlie, who disappeared while traveling the Mekong River in 1974 as part of a yearlong adventure tour around the world.

On Halloween, armed with candles and, until the police persuaded them to jettison it, a coffin that bore the message "Death to Poverty Wages," Ms. McAlevey and other union demonstrators clogged the downtown crossroads to protest management's position in the month-old strike.

Worried about the consequences of an Allende funeral, Pinochet is heard debating what to do with the body, and suggests "sticking it in a coffin and putting it on a plane with the family and sending it to Cuba," or else — the option eventually taken — "burying it secretly" in Chile.

Expediently, putting the item that prompted this thought into the box, as if it were a coffin, or throwing it into the trash, which no one will know about but me?

We've put it in a coffin and set it on fire".

Once the fire subsided, a group of monks covered the smoking corpse with yellow robes, picked it up and tried to fit it into a coffin, but the limbs could not be straightened and one of the arms protruded from the wooden box as he was carried to the nearby Xá Lợi pagoda in central Saigon.

It was a coffin that, like the seven beside it, was covered in carnations and tulips and lilies, bedecked in Russian Orthodox icons and wept over by thousands of mourners.