How to Use coin in a Sentence

coin

1 of 2 noun
  • I have a dollar in coins.
  • Each is topped with beads and coins.
    — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Do gold bars cost less than coins?
    — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Flip a coin and see what comes up.
    — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • This is just sides of the same coin.
    — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Right now, this game is a coin flip.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But the two are both sides of one coin.
    — Kingsley Moghalu, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Will the coin toss come up heads or tails?
    — Brandon Funston, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • But this joy is a coin with two sides.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Which gold coins are best to buy right now?
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Trump wants his face on a $1 coin.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The £5 gold piece is an apex coin.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • So what gold coins make the most sense right now?
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a flip side to that coin, of course.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Some go all-in on one coin and hold for years.
    — Cleve Mesidor, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Feel free to toss in a few coins and make a wish.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a bad side and a good side to that coin.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 Apr. 2026
  • But as with most things, there are two sides to the coin.
    — New Atlas, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Now for the other side of the coin.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
  • There are two sides to every coin.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Fulham know both sides of that coin.
    — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Now what about the other side of the coin?
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There’s the other side of the coin.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Dealers will be there to buy and sell coins.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That was a coin flip there for a second.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • To me, coins are a form of prestige.
    — Thomas Patier, Artforum, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That’s two sides of the same public coin.
    — Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There will be free coin appraisels.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Fill the pot with gold candies or coins.
    — Amanda Rock, Parents, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Are gold coins better than gold bars?
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026

coin

2 of 2 verb
  • The nation plans to coin more money.
  • William Shakespeare is believed to have coined many words.
  • Metzl, who coined the term, agrees.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The man who coined the term has already named the next phase.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Traders coined it as shorthand for panic.
    — Joel Hron, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • It’s been around for a while — the term was coined in 1978.
    — Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, it was coined not by an astronomer, but by an astrologer.
    — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • How does Bateman feel about coining the term?
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
  • To coin a phrase, the rising cost of hydrocarbons floods all boats.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Their friendship has even inspired fans to coin their names as a term of endearment.
    — Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The company whose co-founder coined Moore's Law.
    — Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • That phrase was probably first coined in ancient Greece.
    — ABC News, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The slogan had yet to be coined, but the sentiment was certainly there.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The term was coined to describe employees who badge in at the office just to get coffee and then leave.
    — Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Before anybody had thought to coin the term, the Meyer boys were homeschooled.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The look was coined by celebrity manicurist Jin Soon Choi.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 19 June 2026
  • Before Sandra even coined the whole Traitor angel phrase, that was already in my head.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Charlotte, my wife, coined the nickname shortly after the baby was born last April.
    — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Adversity, as the writer who coined the phrase argues, gives texture to life.
    — Elizabeth Kiefer, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • It may be borrowed or coined, named after a person, inspired by a place or imitative of a sound.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers tried this and coined the technique as activation capping.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Zare and his colleagues first described and coined the term for microlightning in a March study published in .
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This camera captured the first view of the geocorona, a term coined by Carruthers himself.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Astronomers first coined this term in the 1980s, but then, for decades, it was largely forgotten.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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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