Sentence examples for it was cornered from inspiring English sources

He also said many farmers had received no government water because so much of it was cornered by a few powerful landowners.

He saw how the money was being spent; he has made it his business to ferret out how it was cornered.

The naturally shy snake, he added, would almost certainly race away if it sensed humans and would only try to bite a person if it was cornered.

Tommy Horne, who runs Birds of Prey Rescue and has been trying to catch the owl, has said the bird was unlikely to hurt anyone unless it was cornered.

1959: Circus Lion Escapes in New York An 800-pound lion, billed as one of the biggest in captivity, broke loose at Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus in Madison Square Garden last night [March 26], terrifying the 3,000 persons in the audience until it was cornered and trapped about 15 minutes later.

But it was cornering the treasurer on live TV that took it to another level.

It's cornered into a tiny sliver of territory in Eastern Syria.

But, unlike "American Crime," "Guerrilla" too often feels as if it were cornering us at a party, muttering about hegemony.

It seemed that Najib was cornered.

"It sounds like, militarily, he was cornered.

"It is not just the temperatures, but also it is corner after corner after corner.