How to Use cornfield in a Sentence

cornfield

noun
  • Three days later, his body was found in the cornfield.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Closer to town, some of the cornfields give way to stands of trees.
    Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • One had been sucked from his home, his body flung into a cornfield.
    Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Grady, Weaver would learn, had died on the edge of that cornfield.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Kandice saw a house near the cornfield, but Kathie didn’t want to go near it.
    Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • This style isn't just about cows and cornfields—there's a lot to love about farmcore.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The search ended when Rivera led cops to her body in a cornfield.
    Robert Gearty, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2018
  • The town has one main street and is surrounded by cornfields.
    John Blake, CNN, 15 June 2019
  • The suspect fled the area and the girls were left wounded in the cornfield.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Five weeks later, her body was found in a cornfield about five miles from where her car was found.
    Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2022
  • There’s the story about the farmhand who was gored by a bull in the cornfield.
    Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • When the full moon began to rise over the cornfield, Fox was all over it.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Today, the area still consists of cornfields ringed by trees.
    Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
  • The soft music of wind chimes drifts through the tiny cemetery, next to a cornfield not yet plowed.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2013
  • But this field of dreams won’t be a baseball diamond in a cornfield.
    John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2018
  • Night had settled over the cornfields of Traer, Iowa.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Players will weave through the cornfield at the movie site and walk a path to their diamond.
    New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The tools were dug up from a sandstone layer within a present-day cornfield.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Then on the trucks, driving through the cornfield, a little bit later.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 July 2024
  • Last month, the heat wave that swept Europe scorched old vineyards and new cornfields alike.
    Amanda Little, Time, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Law enforcement then found the youngest survivor in the cornfield.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Lise, 14, walks in a cornfield on a sunny day, her pañm brushing its spikes.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Drone footage shows the giant maze, which stretches across a 10-acre cornfield.
    Fox News, 10 July 2019
  • The Nebraska farmer’s cornfield was just too wet and soggy to work last week.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 22 May 2017
  • The right field wall will include windows to show the cornfields beyond the ballpark.
    Jill Martin, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
  • As James Earl Jones in a cornfield would tell you, baseball marks time.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
  • One video of Petterson in a cornfield boasts a sweet message.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Martha loved everything about the coastal haven dotted with potato farms and cornfields.
    Dan Shaw, Martha Stewart, 8 June 2026
  • This week, Sandy Smith said her son would have walked through the woods or a nearby cornfield to get home.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But some sightings have found eagles nesting near cornfields, highways or by small lakes and streams.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025

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