Examples from literature

• After the pets are mummified, they are put in a coffin or covered in bronze. 
• Each coffin takes about three months to build, so don’t wait too long to decide! 
• Finally, the bodies were put in coffins and buried in tombs. 
• If it were your funeral, what shape of coffin would you like? 
• Inside the coffin, there was a mummy. 
• Many people came to his funeral for a chance to see his body in the coffin before it was buried. 
• Sixty years later, funerals in Ghana are famous for fantastic coffins. 
• The coffins are now very popular. 
• The people of Tana Toraja place their dead in caves in nearby cliffs or in coffins tied with rope to the side of a mountain. 
• Then, they placed the mummies in coffins, buried them in the ground, and put large rocks on top of them. 
• There are coffins in the shape of food, animals, cars, airplanes, shoes, even ice cream. 
• Things like fine cloth, coffins, and tombs were also expensive. 
• Usually the coffins show something about the personality or the job of the person to be buried. 
• A princess falls into a deep sleep, and is placed by a magician in a glass coffin. 
• Papa stood at the head of the coffin. 
• The cells were more like coffins than anything else—they were just six feet by three and contained no furniture of any kind. 
• The coffin taken out of the hearse was lowered into the grave. 
• The coffin was placed on the side of the mountain, and each of them watched it by turns, so that it was never left alone.