"coffin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Often 50% died on passage (they were known as "coffin ships").
- A coffin ship is one that sets out on a long voyage in an unseaworthy condition.
- Overall the death rate on the "coffin ships" was extremely high.
- Mortality rates of 30% aboard the coffin ships were common.
- And what did the coffin ships have to do with Prescott's concerns?
- Bergen did not want to think about the coffin ships, but there was no avoiding it now.
- We were expecting some folks from another coffin ship, maybe a pretty woman or two.
- "Save that for the time when the coffin ships come no more, Gilly."
- "Are we to save every scrap brought in by the folk of the coffin ships?"
- Fin, I tell you all of this lovely island is one great coffin ship.
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