How to Use corncob in a Sentence

corncob

noun

• One of the most poignant images is of a corncob doll with corn-silk hair.
  — Eddie Dean, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
• Insert eye hooks into the tops of corncobs.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
• Rather than chain-like, the six-inch-long racemes are bunched, looking like purple corncobs cut in half.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2023
• On the new Nightstick, the Raptor (bird’s head) rounded grip is made of wood, as is the corncob fore-end.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Jan. 2019
• Gizmos like a mushroom scrub brush, a corncob-kernel remover, an egg separator or a crème-brulée torch waste money and space.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2021
• Add the corncobs and 1 tablespoon salt, reduce heat to medium, and cook, covered, for 10 minutes.
  — Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
• Thick summery food waste, like corncobs and husks, watermelon rinds and banana peels, most likely will overtax your disposal.
  — Hints From Heloise, star-telegram.com, 25 May 2017
• Before the museum took over, Gorey’s bedroom was filled with modern plush toys, and the barn behind the twelve-room house now contains boxes of hundred-year-old corncob and peach-pit dolls.
  — Casey Ce, The New Yorker, 12 July 2021
• How much corncob a dog could possibly consume without serious injury depends on its size and the diameter of the intestine, Wismer said.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
• Sugarcane and corncob nourishes, hydrates and replenishes skin.
  — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• The pieces include some practically Dadaist still-life sculptures, made of machine parts, and a chandelier, designed for a Cedar Rapids hotel, with eye-fooling replicas of corncobs.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• Just the other day, my ten-year-old daughter and I were watching a Season 10 episode in which Homer, the family’s tubby paterfamilias, plucks a corncob from a field and eats it raw.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2021
• The researchers’ model helps reveal how conditions such as sunlight and shading affect crop growth—but many other factors such as water availability and microbial interactions determine the length of a corncob or width of a soybean.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2017
• In late spring, the city starts bombing breeding grounds with larvicide — ground-up corncobs saturated with naturally occurring soil bacteria that are deadly to baby mosquitoes but generally harmless to other life.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Kind-of Ajiaco Serves 4 to 6 Ajiaco is a hearty and glorious Colombian chicken soup made with starchy potatoes and milky corncobs to naturally thicken the broth.
  — Julia Clancy, SFChronicle.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• The acquisition by Gulftech International, which closed this week for undisclosed terms, brings Verdant into a suite of companies that make products ranging from industrial-sized juicers to corncob-sorting and product-labeling machines.
  — Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021