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How to use cob in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun, verb

Cob means a corncob. Example: “Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop.”

Examples of cob by meaning

nounA corncob.

  • Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop.1994, Douglas Coupland, Life After God, Washington Square Press,, →ISBN, page 80

nounThe seed-bearing head of a plant.

  • About the end of October last, as an experiment, I selected seed from a Hickory King cob of above and planted twenty rows with from twenty to thirty seeds in each row, rows three feet apart.1909, Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope - Volume 35, page 108
  • One of the branches developed into a fully-formed cob, though it was thinner than the normal cob of the variety.1931, Indian Botanical Society, The Journal of the Indian Botanical Society, page 22

nounA male swan.

  • The cob waddled out onto the island and looked in the nest.1970, E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 22
  • The cob will defend the nest and the eggs.2008, Nicole Helget, Swans, Creative Education,, →ISBN, page 22

nounA building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth...

  • Some tests have been carried out to evaluate the stabilizing effect on cob of modern materials such as gypsum, lime and cement (McPadden & Pavia 2016).2018, Ine Wouters, Stephanie van de Voorde, Inge Bertels, Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories, volume 2, page 790

nounA horse having a stout body and short legs.

  • Freize rode a strong cob and led a donkey laden with their belongings.2012, Philippa Gregory, Changeling, Simon Pulse,, →ISBN, page 36
  • Outside, beyond the low, white fence, a wagonette with a pair of cobs was waiting.2026 April 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Literature on the track”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 68

nounAny of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the...

  • It’s absolutely possible to find an affordable ($20-$35) low to average circulated Spanish silver cob dated around or before 1692, especially if you’re willing to settle for the smaller half real or one real cobs.2006, Todd Cook, The Lost Coins of Early Americans: Still A Secret!, Xulon Press,, →ISBN, page 90
  • Cobs were usually irregularly shaped.2008, Alvin Rabushka, Taxation in Colonial America, Princeton University Press,, →ISBN, page 154

nounA person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.

  • The young mother was darker than either of her parents, and might be taken for a cob (the offspring of a mulatto and a negro), but the baby looked to be almost pure Indian.1902, Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, page 214
  • A cob is a reversion towards the negro, the child of one black parent with a mulatto, three-quarters black and hardly distinguishable.1912, James Rodway, Guiana: British, Dutch, and French, page 190

verbTo construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.

  • Windows and other details can be cobbed into place, and niches and reliefs are easy to create.2004, Joe Kennedy, Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village, →ISBN, page 178
  • Each course is tamped down, or "cobbed," to impart strength and to aid in curing.2009, Marian Keeler, Bill Burke, Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building, →ISBN, page 304
  • And there is another alternative: both papercrete and fidobe can be cobbed.2011, Gordon Salberg, “Paper houses: papercrete and fidobe”, in The Art of Natural Building, →ISBN, page 174

More sentences with cob

  • A fluidized freezing process can be used for both cut corn and cobbed corn.2019, NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers, The Complete Technology Book on Processing, Dehydration, Canning, Preservation of Fruits &…. From the entry cobbed
  • Say Doc, will I be able to eat corn on the cob?"1949, Cleone N. Collins, in an article published in Tic, the journal of the Ticonium Company. From the entry goom
  • Little kernels of corn fresh off the cob nestle their way into this pasta shape's nooks and crannies.2021 July 29, Gianna Nebbia, “Cascatelli with Tomatoes and Corn”, in On the Bias, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2023. From the entry cascatelli
  • Most maize consumed worldwide is fresh or immature (green) whole grain maize on the cob, popmaize (popcorn), and maize bread.2016 December 15, “Maize (Corn)”, in Barbara Elvers, editor, Ullmann’s Food and Feed, 3 Volume Set, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, published 19 June…. From the entry popmaize
  • We walk past a group of women and children gathered around an open fire, roasting maize on the cob.2016 May 18, Neema Komba, “The Search for Magical Mbuji”, in Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, editor, Safe House: Explorations in Creative…. From the entry maize on the cob
  • Two of the more common causes of intestinal obstructions in working dogs are ear tags and corn cobs.2011, Peter Anderson, “Fainters”, in Peter Jerram, Peter Anderson, Cock and Bull Stories: Tales from Two Kiwi Country Vets, Auckland…. From the entry earwaxy
  • While corn is growing, nutrients are being transferred from the rest of the cob to the kernels through the hilum.2005, David Feldman, Do Elephants Jump? (Imponderables Book), New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry hilum
  • Hydrolysis of nucleic acids for single-cell protein concentrates has been carried out in one step using immobilized benzonase on corn cob.1991 October, J. M. Moreno, “Hydrolysis of nucleic acids in single-cell protein concentrates using immobilized benzonase”, in Applied…. From the entry benzonase
  • There is no uniformity: clay-and-straw cob walls and thatch roofs stand happily next to brick and tile, timber and stone.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 334, about Rockbourne. From the entry uniformity
  • The beryl is cobbed out by hand, since no method for successful beneficiation has been developed and applied.1968, National Research Council (U.S.). Materials Advisory Board. Committee on Technical Aspects of Critical and Strategic Materials…. From the entry beneficiation
  • Symptom is stunting of plant, premature wilting of leaves, chlorotic stripes on young leaves, leaf purpling, excessive tillering and cobbing and formation of barren cobs.2020, A. Solaimalai, P. Anantharaju, S. Irulandi, Maize Crop. From the entry cobbing
  • I am a northerner and if any daft apeth with a cob on wants to mither me about my accent, they can do one.2019 March 20, Daniel Lavelle, The Guardian. From the entry do one
  • Sweet corn on the cob comes to vibrant life with a caramelized glaze of smoky chipotle peppers, tangy lime juice, sea salt, and agave nectar.2012, Bo Rinaldi, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry chipotle
  • On the tip of each corn kernel is a hilum, collectively known as the "black layer," where it is attached to the cob.2005, David Feldman, Do Elephants Jump? (Imponderables Book), New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry hilum
  • There were highly significant differences in percent cobbing between the two fertilizer levels, with the unfertilized treatment producing significantly more cobs than the fertilized treatment.1995, Maize research for stress environments, page 50. From the entry cobbing
  • Each of the following runs about $2: spinning wooden top, fox and geese game, gee-haw whimmy diddle, bull roarer, corn cob pipe.1974 November, Texas Monthly, article The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, page 93. From the entry gee haw whimmy diddle
  • "Ar—cher—Ja—cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry pipe
  • Adidas barbecue (chicken feet), roasted peanuts, boiled or roasted corn on the cob, balut (boiled duck egg), sago gulaman (tapioca pearls), fish balls, and fresh fruit and vegetables.2021 February 15, Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines: A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and…. From the entry adidas
  • At least on the north side this provided ample roofed household activity area and was used for eating maize on the cob just before the eruption struck.1992, Payson Sheets, “Structure 7, The Bodega”, in The Ceren Site: A Prehistoric Village Buried by Volcanic Ash in Central America, Fort…. From the entry maize on the cob
  • After the few times I added cobbed corn to my bait pile, I would find cleaned cobs a long distance from the bait pile, sometimes more than 50 yards away.2009, James Woodsing, Grouse, Deer, and Uncle Willy, page 101. From the entry cobbed
  • Another Methodist minister who had trouble with a parishioner by the good old Cape Cod name of Cobb left this record: Cobb, dismissed; too cobby; all cob and no corn."1955, Scott Corbett, Cape Cod's Way: An Informal History, page 169. From the entry cobby

Meaning of cob

  1. noun A corncob.
  2. noun The seed-bearing head of a plant.
  3. noun A male swan.

Full definition of cob

Questions about cob in a sentence

How do you use cob in a sentence?
Cob is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop.”
What is a short sentence with cob?
“Cobs were usually irregularly shaped.”
What does cob mean?
Cob means a corncob.

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