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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