corn - use in sentences
Preposition: on
- cob: By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 07:19 pm: what corn on cob?
- hook: Simon fished flavored corn on the hook together with soft hook pellets.
Converse of object
- grind: The water from the stream originally provided the steam to power the workings for grinding the corn for local farmers.
- thresh: Next harvest saw both farmer and yard boy threshing the corn themselves.
- chop: Paul fished peg 47 and caught all his fish on soft pellet fished over carp pellet and chopped corn.
Adjective modifier
- sweet: I've also been involved in marketing at Green Giant which mainly involved their sweet corn, which was OK.
- transgenic: In addition, their study on the current cultivation of transgenic corn in Spain shows that Spanish farmers have clearly benefited from the crop.
- parched: How tenderly did Boaz reach her the parched corn.
- crushed: All the fish fell to soft pellet fished over small carp pellets and crushed corn.
- ripe: At its best in the middle of a field of ripe golden corn, it is also familiar from roadsides and verges.
Modifies a noun
- bunting: Corn Buntings may be seen singing on the fences.
- borer: Pest resistance The corn borer destroys up to 7 % of the world's maize harvest each year.
- miller: He was in partnership with George Bagshaw and was later listed as a corn miller at New Catton.
- starch: We look strange in the radio room all powdered down with corn starch.
- syrup: Corn syrup in formulas can also cause a problem.
- mill: The Brindley Mill is a working water powered corn mill built in 1752 by James Brindley.
Noun used with modifier
- Bt: Thus, the economic benefits of using Bt corn are not assured.
- fructose: I suspect no shopkeeper would take on the task of selling stuff without the old sucrose or high fructose corn syrup.
- biotech: It would also refute what appears to have been an overblown panic over the reported effect of biotech corn on the monarch.
- guinea: Nov 21 Fire About 3:00 a fire started down by Gregory ' s guinea corn farm.
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