What is "coffinlike"

Usage examples of "coffinlike".

A few minutes later, the two men stood by as the android fumbled with a remote-control device, clicked it, and sank back into the coffinlike box.

There in the coffinlike crampedness, there in the blackness of space, she had had more than a taste of death and decided that it was more than enough.

Norla had been whispering to her larger self, telling her that she would never again have the courage to lay herself down in the coffinlike confines of a cryocan.

Quickly Britt leaps down the crumbly stone steps and rushes through the low, narrow, coffinlike confines of this buried tunnel, his fast-moving feet pounding toward the chamber, ready for a colossal confrontation.

Several times he returned to the study, saw the lines on the screen but nothing new, and then walked out of the room, pacing through the dining room with its coffinlike learning machines, standing in the living room looking out at the gray rain, even going down into the basement awhile.

It seemed there was a lower deck composed entirely of coffinlike transparent cages stacked one atop the other, and that she was carried down there by one of the Mallegestors.

She bent over the coffinlike apparatus for a few seconds, as the song from her recorder rose to a climax.

ON HIS BACK inside his coffinlike, executive-grade sleep cubicle, the director of the Totality Concept's most advanced research program sorted his worldly possessions.

He looked over the rows of coffinlike sleep slots, foggy from internal chill and condensation, each showing a dim, hibernating form within.

Hackworth had arrived at the point where he frankly didn't care, and so he stared directly at these men, front-line soldiers of their various microstates, as each one primly folded his navy blue suit jacket and elbow-crawled into a coffinlike microcabin like a GI squirming under a roll of concertina wire, accompanied or not by a camp follower.