How to Use coffer in a Sentence

coffer

1 of 2 noun
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  • And the blow to the city’s coffers promises to be sizable.
    — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But falling oil prices over the past year have drained state coffers.
    — Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
  • The plan promises cleaner air, smoother rides and more funds to the agency’s coffers in the future.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • Ainge was a master at keeping the Celtics’ coffer of draft picks jam-packed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
  • The agency charged lenders as a way to refill its coffers from last year’s bank failures.
    — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Throw in the prospect of stealing millions from the crumbling enterprise’s coffers and the stakes and body count only rise.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Scammers find a way to talk you into moving your money from a safe place to their coffers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The problem, according to MARB members, is not how much money the city has in its coffers.
    — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Besides the landfill, the town was worried about the municipal coffers and the state of their local schools.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Spending on police claimed about 10% of the general fund coffer during the past few years.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2020
  • The city has millions of dollars available in its coffers, said Gentile.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, all these new franchises meant great things for the company’s coffers.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Cities depend on the sales tax that comes from these restaurants and small businesses to fuel city coffers.
    — Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Retail bike sales are a critical line item for many shops, with service and smaller non-bike sales filling in the rest of the coffer.
    — Dario Digiulio, Outside Online, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Study after study has shown that sports teams rarely bring revenue to city coffers, and the Angels are no different.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Investors added a net $35 billion in new money to the firm’s coffers, down by about half from the prior-year period.
    — Dawn Lim, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2020
  • On the other hand, tax refunds were down compared to 2022, which helps keep cash in government coffers.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 15 May 2023
  • That hurts residents’ quality of life and the profits that feed tax coffers.
    — Tim Henderson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • That means the community as a whole doesn't see the money flow into the tax coffer until after the debt is retired.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2022
  • As a consequence, high inflation and the looming threat of a recession have dealt a blow to state coffers.
    — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
  • The money was found bilked from the government’s coffers and mismanaged.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The deal will add $120 million to the company’s coffers and push its valuation to more than $1 billion, the startup said.
    — Jennifer Surane, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The new round would put hundreds of millions of dollars in Scale’s coffers, according to the report, which cited anonymous sources.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The program is supposed to bring in new jobs and business but instead has ended up draining civic coffers and starving schools.
    — Christine Wen, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Democrats have, in recent years, demonstrated the tendency to dream a little too big and pile untold sums of campaign cash in the coffers of a litany of no-hopers.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Much of the visit, however, was spent with donors, who are expected to line the president’s campaign coffers with cash.
    — Gabrielle Canon, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The invasion of Ukraine has depleted the Russian economy and the Kremlin’s coffers.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The logic goes like this: If there is less money coming into the country, those who steal from the public coffers will think twice because the consequences of that theft will be more dire.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The first step would be an emergency infusion of funds to refill the stabilization grant coffers.
    — Elliot Haspel, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • With billions sitting in their coffers, Ripple and others can continue to exist for years.
    — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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coffer

2 of 2 verb
  • Questions of where the state coffers stood at the end of the last fiscal year have hung over Beacon Hill for weeks.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Must-see rooms include the family room, with its coffered ceiling, hardwood floors, and fireplace-- one of five in the house.
    — cleveland, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The news that Pence had drained his campaign coffers in order to buy a Taylor Swift ticket left his staffers in a state of shock.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • The rise in construction costs also has a way of bleeding the sin tax coffers dry, Silliman said.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • For years in the United States, high culture—or, more precisely, the idea of high culture—was kept aloft with help from Cold War coffers.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • As a bonus, the clubhouse — with its French doors, white coffered ceiling and charming veranda — might be the finest of any public course in the country.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2019
  • The home has about 6,800 square feet of living space, coffered ceilings, four bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The biggest thing on her mind was the extra $200 million that was expected to pour into the county coffers a year from junkies like me.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
  • The red oak flooring found throughout the main level complements the wood paneling that is used on the walls and coffered ceiling.
    — James Alexander, courant.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The 5,643-square-foot house has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms and comes with a front courtyard, coffered ceilings and wide-plank white oak flooring.
    — Ebony Day, azcentral, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Grandest of the getaways is the 32-foot library these owners added, which is richly paneled and coffered with cherry.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2017
  • Don’t miss the Q restaurant and bar, with its coffered ceiling, gold and purple accents and portraits of Queen Victoria.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The office’s coffered ceiling and wainscoting are made of cherry, a warm complement to the hardwood floor.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 20 July 2017
  • The air rights, appraised at $249 million, are expected to substantially increase the value of the condo units, in turn boosting city coffers over the term of the lease.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • A coffered ceiling featuring black insets with small twinkling lights offers the feel of watching a movie under the stars.
    — Jennifer Boehm, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 May 2017
  • Among the luxury features: golf course lots, coffered ceilings and a waterfall spa.
    — Ebony Day, azcentral, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The chandelier still hangs in the center of the auditorium's coffered ceiling.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Enjoy a casual meal in the dining nook that also features a coffered ceiling.
    — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
  • About $3 billion has already landed in state, county, and city coffers, and about $50 billion more is expected in the coming decade and beyond.
    — Aneri Pattani, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • So a growing number of suits across the state seek to recover the funds for property owners — meaning millions could drain out of county coffers.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Basra holds Iraq’s largest oil reserves, accounts for 80 percent of the country’s oil exports, and provides more than $7 billion a month to the government coffers.
    — Ranj Alaaldin, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2018
  • First, politicians’ main job is getting re-elected, so their view tends to be short term and influenced by lobbyists who fund their campaign coffers.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This room also has cast stone fireplace, scalloped detailed coffered ceiling, and French door access to a private courtyard.
    — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 24 July 2019
  • Features include Carrara marble floors, a gourmet kitchen, a formal dining room and coffered ceilings.
    — Robyn A. Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Federal prosecutors say Santos wired some of the money to his personal bank account and used the rest to pad his campaign coffers.
    — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Scott, a ferocious fundraiser, had more than $20 million in his campaign coffers at the beginning of the year, which could be transferred to a presidential campaign.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • But the news has apparently boosted Trump’s campaign coffers.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Modern chandeliers and coffered ceilings make a case for looking upward.
    — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
  • Federal prosecutors say Santos, who has pleaded not guilty, wired some of the money to his personal bank account and used the rest to pad his campaign coffers.
    — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Past a grey façade of stucco and concrete, the traditional-style home opens to 4,314 square feet of formal living spaces with dark hardwood floors, coffered ceilings and wainscoting.
    — Jack Flemming, Daily Pilot, 11 Oct. 2019

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