How to Use coin in a Sentence
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The 49ers won the coin toss and elected to receive the ball in overtime.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
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The Grizzlies won a coin flip with the Cavaliers and will have the 25th pick.
—Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2023
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And, thanks to the deals, the surplus of coins can go right back into the fund for next year.
—Sarah Han, Allure, 19 Nov. 2023
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At Mischa, those two ideas are flip sides of the same coin.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2023
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Imagine that the weight of the coin is controlled by a dial.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
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During the coin toss, the 49ers decided to possess the ball first.
—Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
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That’s because blockchain is now filled up with NFTs and meme coins.
—Justin Ray, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
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Save your coins, sis! Picnic in one of New York City’s parks.
—Felice León, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
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Those odds are in play if every game was a coin flip – or a fair 50/50 shot.
—Christopher Brito, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
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Who knows, maybe Lohan is gonna get her wish through a gold coin.
—Vulture, 22 Jan. 2024
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The price of ether, the coin tied to ethereum, rose rapidly after the bitcoin ETF approvals.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
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There’s another side to the coin that’s a little scary.
—Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
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The other side of that coin is having someone who would go to bat for you.
—Lauren Wickstead, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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There's lots of space to store credit cards, business cards, cash and even a few coins.
—Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
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But the opposite side of the coin is the social expense and the awkwardness.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
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Colorado won the overtime coin toss and elected to give the ball to its offense first.
—Chantz Martin, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
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The pair were buried with coins, gold earrings, glass bottles, a lamp and a necklace.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
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The coin slot lights up red when one of the buttons is pressed, and the game's score can be rotated to increase it.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
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In most tennis matches, when a set moves to a tiebreaker, the outcome comes down to a flip of a coin.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 June 2023
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She has been tasked with finding gold coins amid the rubble without a grasp of the landscape.
—Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
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The props include handouts and coins from the Fortune’s Wheel casino.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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On the other side of the coin, men with a more oily scalp may only be able to tolerate it once a week.
—Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
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This all came to a head when investors decided to sell their coins on the exchange.
—Brandy Hadley, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2023
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On the flip side of the coin stand those clients determined to steer clear of any and all financial pitfalls.
—Todd Longwell, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
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The idea is that the government could mint a $1 trillion platinum coin and use it to avoid a default.
—Josh Boak, Fortune, 9 May 2023
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One of the guests, Stephen Colbert, paid Fallon in pennies, dumping a bucket of the coins all over him.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
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First, Biden could order the U.S. Mint to create something like a coin worth $1 trillion.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
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The gifts, which are equivalent to money, are TikTok coins in the form of emojis and stickers.
—Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
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The coin ultimately gets stuck and the girls are not able to physically see anything.
—Kristina Behr, Parents, 15 Apr. 2024
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On a Discord channel for the coin’s investors, legitimate queries were buried under a pile of spam.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
- William Shakespeare is believed to have coined many words.
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This moon also is called a blue moon, the term coined for the second full moon in a month.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
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In fact, it was coined not by an astronomer, but by an astrologer.
—Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2020
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To coin a phrase that fellow Hall of Famer made – Tupac Shakur called it a rose that rose from the concrete.
—Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2021
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In Japan, a new word has been coined, on-nomi (オン飲み), which refers to drinking with friends online.
—Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
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Yes, Week 1500 is yet another chance to coin new words, one that’s pretty clear on what to do.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
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The slogan had yet to be coined, but the sentiment was certainly there.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
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Astronomers first coined this term in the 1980s, but then, for decades, it was largely forgotten.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
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Before anybody had thought to coin the term, the Meyer boys were homeschooled.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 28 Aug. 2021
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The matchup, coined as the Texas Throwdown, was a roller coaster that featured momentum swings and big plays from both teams.
—Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2020
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Harold Shand, the Cockney gangster brought to snarling life by Bob Hoskins, is a man who knows how to coin a memorable phrase.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
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In Week 1461 the Empress asked the Loser Community to coin words based on people’s names.
—Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
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The term was first coined last year amid a rise in pink, following the Valentino fall 2022 collection and the first set photos from the Barbie movie.
—Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 24 July 2023
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The term supermoon was coined by astrologer Richard Noelle in 1979, but some believe the term is a bit misleading.
—Maggie Horton, Country Living, 20 July 2023
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That phrase was first coined by legendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, describing a tough style of running the ball.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
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Some might refer to this as the last-mile problem or perhaps more aptly coin it as the last-step problem in this instance.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
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In this de facto role, Preskill has coined catchphrases to make concepts in the math-heavy field easier to grasp.
—Sophia Chen, Wired, 9 Mar. 2020
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That bandwidth, though, as the Grossmont High School alum coined it, was tested like never before.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
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Global warming: The lab that coined the term has slowed its work during the coronavirus outbreak.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
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The Roman satirist Juvenal coined the phrase in his biting Tenth Satire: panem et circenses.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 22 Jan. 2020
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The incident led the Hunting Team to coin a term for the premature exposure of a weakness in a ransomware strain.
—Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
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Trump has famously coined nicknames for his opponents but hasn’t been on the receiving end of a moniker that has stuck.
—Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
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Karissa Schaudt, colorist at Chicago's Maxine Salon, coined the term, and predicts the shade will be huge for 2020.
—Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2020
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The word altruism was coined around 1830 by French philosopher August Comte, as the opposite of egoism.
—Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
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Experts have been forced to coin a new term for fires exceeding 1 million acres: gigafire.
—ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2024
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Media coined breakdancing to explain the form more broadly.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
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Mandy sets out to find the owner of the book, letter, and coin with the help of Jonah (Bradford B. Johnson), a contractor who first came upon and donated the book.
—Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
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There’s a new putter hitting the market – coined Face The Hole – that takes this putting style as its foundation, but modernizes it with a super-long shaft.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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Singers and rappers, often raised in immigrant families, have coined new terms.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
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It was coined by Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, to illustrate the idea of cultural replication.
—Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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