mortal coils
- plural of mortal coil.
Example Sentences
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On Independence Day 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—former presidents who had been great friends, then bitter enemies, then friends again—shuffled off their mortal coils within hours of each other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Those still in their mortal coils can wear head-mounted devices to interact in virtual spaces with a mixture of the living, the dead, and the artificial.
From Slate ● May 6, 2020
By contrast, Christians who believed in bodily resurrection seem to have regarded their own mortal coils as the crucial venues in which they were to live out their devotion to Christ.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2012
Away from the protection of adults, Cooney and his friends indulged the illusion they were exempt from death and other mortal coils, as the young tend to do, this time to a deadly end.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I still wuz dubersome and sez, "Mebby it would end by our shufflin' off our mortal coils, as Mr. Shakespeare tells on."
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Holley, Marietta
