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- adjective Resembling a
coffin .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I looked into that dark, coffinlike space and imagined myself crammed in there, yelling and screaming and crying.
The Opposite of Me SARAH PEKKANEN 2010
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Prisoners could be thrown into walls, waterboarded, shackled to the ceiling for hours, deprived of sleep for up to 11 days and locked in coffinlike boxes.
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The tipping point came when, after a few weeks, Soufan saw the coffinlike box that Mitchell had constructed.
Abu Zubaydah and Ali Soufan: Discrepancies? | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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After four hours spent searching the corridors with flashlights, police came upon a coffinlike chamber attached to the second-floor ceiling.
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In a cartoon depicting the miseries of seasickness, Clover sketched two figures lying stiffly in coffinlike berths on opposite sides of the state-room.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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In a cartoon depicting the miseries of seasickness, Clover sketched two figures lying stiffly in coffinlike berths on opposite sides of the state-room.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Emery ran her fingers over a miniature coffinlike brass model, and another that looked like a humidor, and then a granite one that looked like a smooth-sided Eiffel Tower or a perfume bottle.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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Emery ran her fingers over a miniature coffinlike brass model, and another that looked like a humidor, and then a granite one that looked like a smooth-sided Eiffel Tower or a perfume bottle.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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After calmly replacing the pistol in his pocket, the assassin stared at the wooden, coffinlike box.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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Emery ran her fingers over a miniature coffinlike brass model, and another that looked like a humidor, and then a granite one that looked like a smooth-sided Eiffel Tower or a perfume bottle.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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