cornflakes
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.
Browse dictionary entries near cornflakes
- cornfield
- cornfed
- cornetist
- cornet-à-pistons
- cornet
- cornerwise
- cornerstone
- cornerman
- cornering the market
- cornered
- cornflower
- cornhusker
- cornhusking
- cornice
- corniche
- cornichon
- corniculate
- cornify
- Cornish
- Cornishman
