Sentence examples for coined from high-quality English sources.

• Where did the person who coined that term work?

• Sociology as a word was coined by the French philosopher Auguste Comte in 1837 (see Comte, Auguste).

• The word ‘dialetheism’ was coined by Graham Priest and Richard Routley (later Sylvan) in 1981 (Priest et al 1989, p. xx).

• Fox News host Jesse Watters coined the phrase ‘Beyonce Voters’, who ‘depend on government because they’re not depending on their husbands’.

• Gold and his brother, Ian, coined the term the "Truman Show delusion" in 2008.

• The term is often interchanged with "gigafactory", a phrase believed to be coined by Elon Musk at Tesla in 2013.

• The word microbe was coined in the last quarter of the 19th century to describe these organisms, all of which were thought to be related.

• Then there is shortening, on which Australians seem particularly keen, having coined pando (pandemic), iso (isolation) and sanny (hand sanitiser).

Use coined in a sentence.

• The 'digital divide' was a term originally coined to describe the digital and technological access disparities between rural and urban areas within the US.

• The term, which was coined in the 1980s, applies to companies that issue inflated environmental claims to help hide a track-record of questionable behaviour.

• The term was originally coined after a 1944 film ‘Gaslight’ portrayed a controlling marriage in which the husband manipulated his wife into doubting her own sanity.

• The designation Georgian that is used in the European languages was coined during the Crusades; it is based on Persian gorji (Georgian), from which the Russian gruzin was also derived.

• Around the time that Miltown was taking off, Hans Selye, a Hungarian émigré working in Canada, coined the term “stressor” (as he had earlier coined the psychological term “stress”).

• The term communitarian was coined in 1841 by John Goodwyn Barmby, a leader of the British Chartist movement, who used it to refer to utopian socialists and others who experimented with unusual communal lifestyles.

• For the past ten years, ever since then Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, coined the term, any attempt to reform the filibuster—that is, limit or abolish it—has been called, for short, the “nuclear option.”

• In 2007, the All-China Women's Federation — a government body founded in 1949 to defend women's rights — coined the term "leftover women," categorizing all unmarried women over the age of 27 in an attempt to pressure women to marry earlier to avoid the label.

coined sentence examples

• Insider reported earlier today that the line "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" was coined in the 1960s by Walter Headley, a former chief of the Miami Police Department, whose actions in the position were responsible for racial unrest and riots in that city.

• The new 45th president of the United States coined the sinister phrase “American carnage” to vividly conjure an image of inner cities he said were afflicted by crime, a political elite that had forgotten ordinary people, and a landscape of rusted factories like tombstones.

• Some legal scholars argue that Ginsburg’s work, particularly as a litigator, was more intersectional — a term the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined in 1989 to describe the complex ways gender, race and other aspects of identity interact — than is commonly acknowledged.

• Flavius Philostratus’s Bioi sophistōn (Lives of the Sophists) treats both the Sophists of the 5th century bc and the later philosophers and rhetoricians of the Second Sophistic, a name coined by Philostratus to describe the art of declamation in Greek as practiced in the Roman Empire from the time…