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cornflakes Definition

corn·flakes (-flāks′)

a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes made from hulled corn and served cold, as with milk

cornflakes Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • eat: Get up, shower, eat cornflakes, go to work, school, back to bed?
  • have: Like the Community of Europe, nations tired of battling, tired of having the same cornflakes packaged in dishonestly different packaging.
  • buy: Seen anyone who is on the telly buying cornflakes out of Tesco?
  • add: Add the cornflakes to the mixture gently stirring them until they are covered with the chocolate.
  • like: Then they come back to have their breakfast - Taggy loves to share Graham's toast, and Flora likes cornflakes!
  • sell: The literary world may not like it, but where the City is concerned selling books is no different to selling cornflakes.

Preposition: for

  • breakfast: It was on Friday too, that I realized how much I was missing my cornflakes for breakfast!

Adjective modifier

  • soggy: Her favorite foods are anything that is sweet, but she doesn't like soggy cornflakes or sandwiches with no crunch.
  • crushed: Dip in beaten egg then roll in the crushed cornflakes.
  • dry: I settled for dry cornflakes, dry toast and despite dietary morals, cake.
  • few: What's more there's fewer cornflakes in bigger packets.
  • organic: A selection of organic cornflakes, homemade muesli or porridge are also available.

Modifies a noun

  • packet: Damn, I knew I should have waited... They'll be giving them away in cornflakes packets at this rate.
  • box: The back of your cornflakes cereal box is a better read.
  • diet: The cornflakes diet is but a distant memory... !

Preposition: in

  • packet: What's more there's fewer cornflakes in bigger packets.