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How to use cornfield in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Cornfield means a field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop. Example: “The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.”

More sentences with cornfield

  • The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.From the entry belt
  • There is more to Illinois than cornfields, corrupt politicians, and the Cubs!2000, Jerome Pohlen, Oddball Illinois, →ISBN, page 327. From the entry Land of Lincoln
  • A couple of flowerpots-ful of wheat played at being a cornfield in front of a plain backcloth.[1949], Arthur Koestler, translated by Edith Simon, “Destruction of the Town Nola”, in The Gladiators, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, →OCLC…. From the entry flowerpot-ful
  • In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.1916, Allen Jesse Reynolds, Wilson Straley, The Archaeological Bulletin, volumes 7-9, page 3. From the entry flint
  • "I might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield."1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC. From the entry should
  • We like long walks through frozen cornfields.2024 January 27, Charlie Berens and Myles Montplaisir, We're Midwesterners. From the entry ope
  • Looking at a cornfield then, I'd seen as much gray dirt between the stalks as I had emerald green.2015, Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry, Penguin, →ISBN…. From the entry hypergreen
  • Across the cornfields, in the predominantly Croat settlement of Borovo Naselje, people had hung out the Croatian checkerboard.2013, Michael Dobbs, Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. From the entry Croatian checkerboard
  • Stunned, I took the sicklelike corn knife Fowler thrust into my hands and let myself be herded out toward the cornfield.1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred. From the entry sicklelike
  • Five passengers were killed in this cornfield meet.1968, Robert C[arroll] Reed, “Head-on Collisions”, in Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry cornfield meet
  • Las Vegas—“The Meadows” in Spanish—was a hodgepodge of adobe houses, set among rustling cornfields irrigated by a muddy acequia that seeped from the Gallinas River.2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 3. From the entry acequia
  • Do you think it's possible for two trains to have a cornfield meet right in the middle of an automatically protected block?1943, Railroad Magazine, volume 34, New York, N.Y.: Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1. From the entry cornfield meet
  • Mirella had a story about a duplex in a housing development of identical duplexes, exurban Cleveland, cornfields on one side and an expressway on the other.2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 84. From the entry exurban
  • From a semiconstructed building in the middle of a cornfield into the bathroom floor of his cell in the Altiplano prison, its length is greater than a mile.2015 July 16, Azam Ahmed, “$1 Million Price Tag Hinted at in El Chapo’s Escape”, in New York Times. From the entry semiconstructed
  • He would go out into one of his cornfields and select a few ears of corn, the kernels of which could be barely dented with the thumb nail.1943, Bess Virginia Hicks Ehrmann, Back Trails of Indiana, page 160. From the entry gritten

Meaning of cornfield

  1. noun A field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop.
  2. noun A field of corn (maize).

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Questions about cornfield in a sentence

How do you use cornfield in a sentence?
Cornfield is used as a noun. For example: “The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.”
What is a short sentence with cornfield?
“We like long walks through frozen cornfields.”
What does cornfield mean?
Cornfield means a field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornfield (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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