In my coffin-like cage, I could not hide or dodge. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: (Oral history: Livingston)] Reference
The tank was one-third the size of the Kan's coffin-like rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
In my coffin-like cage, sick, bleeding, my stomach jumping and boiling. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: (Oral history: Livingston)] Reference
The result was as momentarily disorienting as had been Senjin's coffin-like hotel room. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
(Evidently though, there is something to be said for the coffin-like symbolism of the catafalque.). From Wordnik.com. [Reader Question: Constructing the Catafalque] Reference
Can either be hung from the walls or lined up on a long table, inside clear, coffin-like biocabinets. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference
The CIA therefore proposed to lock the prisoner in a coffin-like box to which would be added an insect. From Wordnik.com. [Revealing the Secrets in Room 101] Reference
As Andrew Sullivan blogged on August 28, many Iraqi detainees are routinely placed in coffin-like boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Hayden: Torture Now an Afghanistan Issue] Reference
The crocodile was appointed cadaver-carrier: so now all its children have a coffin-like skin on their backs. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
Beneath the sceen, a huge golden Academy Award statue is layed out in a coffin-like box, arms crossed over its chest. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Ashes of American Flags] Reference
The first is cramped, carpet-lined, and coffin-like and conveys Tadpole and me to the ground floor of our apartment building. From Wordnik.com. [bloggerers’ social – update] Reference
When we got together to shoot the film Let It Be at the coffin-like Twickenham Film Studios, things went downhill immediately. From Wordnik.com. [PAUL IS UNDEAD] Reference
Some rallying against the war carried coffin-like cardboard boxes to signify the deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq news - web sites. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
She had her hands lifted and clawing, as the first water swirled round her legs, and her coffin-like mouth was opened in a hoarse scream. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
'I hope you're not claustrophobic because you're going in a box within a box,' he said and then made her slide into the coffin-like container. From Wordnik.com. [The Jigsaw Man]
It is scarcely the height of his chest, longer than the others, vaguely coffin-like, a flap of thumb-smudged white corrugate serving as its door. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson] Reference
Then, as he awoke with the horror of the dream still on him, his eyes fell on the two stretcher beds that looked like biers and the black coffin-like sleeping bag. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
While Mr. Gelb appears to be doing his darndest to let some light into the coffin-like atmosphere that pervades the Met, there are clearly still plenty of areas to work on. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
The shadow of his hobnailed boots was enormous and coffin-like. From Wordnik.com. [Chance A Tale in Two Parts] Reference
It describes putting people in a coffin-like box for hours at a time. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet] Reference
Down on the silent river below, coffin-like row-boats lay moored to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
The prisoner was then put in a coffin-like black box, about 4 feet by 3 feet and 6 feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference
We watched eagerly from our coffin-like layout blinds as the birds glided closer, wings cupped. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
We are then taken to the 'Bath Haus of Gaga' where several white coffin-like boxes are laid out. From Wordnik.com. [JamaicaObserver.com | Lead Stories] Reference
The inversion table involves no claustrophobia as you´re not zipped into a coffin-like balloon capsule. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
"They sleep in coffin-like things, and they strap them down and hook them up so they won't float away," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Sand Mountain Reporter: News] Reference
Entombed by the Haitian earthquake: The coffin-like space beneath the rubble where survivor was buried for 11 days. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Or are they placing flowers in remembrance of Google China, by placing memorial flowers next to their coffin-like logo?. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
The blinds are coffin-like contraptions ingeniously developed and refined by people who seek nothing so much as invisibility. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The skeleton was in a long box, coffin-like, and yet with the indefinable austerity of hospitals rather than that of morgues. From Wordnik.com. [Laurels are Poison]
We grow Na'vi bodies with human DNA, and using remote technology, humans "drive" the bodies by entering coffin-like chambers. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Prisoners described being put in dog collars, having their heads slammed against walls, and forced inside "coffin-like" boxes. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
He was often slapped in the face and then placed in a coffin-like wooden box and forced to crouch with his air supply restricted. From Wordnik.com. [Raw Story] Reference
Zubaydah recounted instances of being beaten, being placed in a coffin-like box with no light and little air, and being waterboarded. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
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