Sentence examples for corn from inspiring English sources
The word "corn" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to the grain or the plant that produces the grain. For example: "Corn is the most widely grown crop in the United States."
noun
The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
If you had a few ignorant people out riding across the winter corn, you'd shout at them".
One dollar a day buys Maria the seeds to plant beans and corn to make tortillas or buy rice imported from the US.
That's where a manager needs to earn his corn.
Then she got busy with comb, water and beads and began to plait Anna's hair into perfect corn braids.
The gunmen seized Hajja while she was picking corn in a field near her home in a small village in north-eastern Nigeria in July 2013.
New Hampshire is also a much bigger democratic exercise than Iowa, hence former New Hampshire governor John Sununu's famous, though not entirely accurate quip, that Iowa picks corn while New Hampshire picks presidents.
While genetically engineered corn and soybeans are routinely grown, they are largely consumed by animals, while wheat is consumed directly by people and has faced more consumer resistance.
They grow wheat, corn and cotton but their farms have been affected badly after the regime cut off fuel supplies this year.
Hominy is made from corn soaked in an alkaline solution to remove the hulls, and tastes like sweetcorn.
In 2003, Lehmann and his colleagues treated farm fields in Colombia with biochar and found they yielded up to 140 percent more corn per acre compared to biochar-free fields.
It's a Georgian watermill that used to grind corn for the local estate - the original grinder is still in the dining room.
