Example Sentences

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But she offered this backhanded praise: Americans, she wrote, “are doing what the Elizabethans did—they are coining new words.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

At the moment, four separate NT productions are coining in the cash in the West End while This House and the Alan Bennett series play to packed houses at the National itself.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2013

Now industrial designers are coining terms like "blobjects," "commodity chic" and "cutensils" by creating items to match.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now his machines are coining profits for him 24 hours a day, and one member of Paris haute soci�t� sends her maid with the family wash in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce.

From Time Magazine Archive

The signal that the soldiers are coining is to be the blowing of a horn.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)