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As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time.—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 Mar. 2025 Over the years, the Missouri River shifted its course, leaving the Arabia and its valuable cargo buried 45 feet beneath a Kansas cornfield.—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2025 Migratory sandhill cranes spend winters in warm places like Mexico and Texas and then make their way as far north as Alaska, stopping off along the way to bulk up at grain and cornfields.—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025 Along the way, hundreds died; government forces, meanwhile, destroyed our cornfields and peach orchards and slaughtered our livestock.—Alastair Lee Bitsóí, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cornfield
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