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Example sentences for "cornfield"

Lexicographically close words:
cornes; cornet; cornetcy; cornetist; cornets; cornfields; cornflour; cornflower; cornflowers; corni
  1. After advancing about three hundred yards we reached a cornfield about one hundred yards wide, with woods beyond.

  2. Still the main portion kept on its way, crossed the cornfield and passed into the crater, under a fearful fire of the enemy, who had now somewhat recovered from the first alarm, and had returned to man their deserted works.

  3. Except during the early morning or at dusk, the cornfield does not stand out conspicuously in the landscape.

  4. In midsummer, when the sun rises over the hillside opposite my home its first bright beams glance between the branches of a giant oak in the hedgerow of a cornfield above the wooded slope, and sparkle on my study window.

  5. Except during harvest, the cornfield is seldom visited by the country folk.

  6. The doe and her leveret had lived happily in the cornfield and the meadows above the wood.

  7. At the edge of this cornfield lay a gray horse, said to have belonged to a Rebel colonel, who was killed near the same place.

  8. Wright, widow of James Wright, and Nancy's folks, get from these sentences the last glimpse of husband and friend as he threw up his arms and fell in the bloody cornfield of Antietam?

  9. This and the cornfield may serve to identify the part of the ground we visited, if any who fought there should ever look over this paper.

  10. The old tepee rings show still up in the prairie cornfield where even the plough, that great weapon of civilization and obliteration, has not quite made a dead level of the landmarks of the past.

  11. A broad green track runs for many a long, long mile across the downs, now following the ridges, now winding past at the foot of a grassy slope, then stretching away through cornfield and fallow.

  12. This is what he wished first of all to see about, and so he flew all day long over cornfield and meadow.

  13. The farmer now came out to look at his rye, and when he saw the weeds in the cornfield he scratched his head with vexation and began to growl.

  14. The clanging of the bell brought the men from the fields but as they approached on the run through the cornfield and potato patch, Beach threw a leg over his horse and galloped away, shooting into the air.

  15. For, first thing you know, seemed I'd just dozed off, someone come shoutin' through the cornfield that the General had been killed.

  16. It was daylight when we parked in a cornfield on the other side, and men and animals were glad to get some rest.

  17. One day some of the men discovered a large cornfield in the bottom land near the river.

  18. The cornfield in front of our transports terminated at the edge of a dense forest.

  19. We'll go back to the cornfield and find her hiding, I feel certain.

  20. The Bobbsey twins, with Harry, were out in the cornfield gathering ears of corn to feed to the hogs and chickens.

  21. From a nearby cornfield we managed to supply ourselves with roasting ears, and the number a young Confederate could consume in a day would have been ample rations for a horse.

  22. Penny started to reply, then remained silent as she saw that Mrs. Davis' gaze had focused upon a section of cornfield which fringed the melon patch.

  23. Eagerly she told him of her own talk with Mrs. Davis, mentioning that someone had been hiding in the cornfield near the cabin.

  24. An' the cornfield air close ter the house, too.

  25. Thief in the blade, Blight of the cornfield Paimosaid.

  26. Nor is there any doubt on these occasions, that the occurrence truly reveals the fact that the cornfield has actually been thus depredated on.

  27. Cut across the orchard to the cornfield and wait for me where we were sitting the other night.

  28. I cut across the cornfield and managed to reach the barn.

  29. There's the cornfield where I've been plowing," David called back to her.

  30. And then below the bridge the lad could see the historic meadow, which was a cornfield in the eighteenth century, where Captain Moses Rice and Phineas Arms came suddenly one summer day to the end of their planting and hoeing.

  31. Happy Phineas Arms, at the age of seventeen to exchange in a moment the tedium of the cornfield for immortality.

  32. While the regiment was in the cornfield and the baffle was raging the fiercest, a cannon-ball struck Captain Manross in the side and passed under his arm.

  33. While passing through the cornfield the men stripped themselves of blankets, overcoats, and all luggage that would impede the progress of marching or the use of firearms.

  34. We went out of that cornfield faster than we went in.

  35. We were in more danger when a fool officer one day took our brigade of infantry down through a cornfield to assault a gunboat that lay in a creek close by.

  36. It was a handsome meadow; the ground high and rolling, the grass waving in the distance, a cornfield on the right, a hilly pasture on the left, and a green grove still further to the south.

  37. Beyond the cornfield was a swampy lot, overgrown with coarse, wild grass, and partially drained by a black, sluggish stream.

  38. At this point he found the fence had been thrown down, and there were plenty of horse-tracks in the cornfield which it surrounded.

  39. There was a cornfield on the left of the road where he was, but at some distance from it.

  40. I've noticed that you haven't set foot in the cornfield since I spoke to you over there in the middle of the day.

  41. He'd like to have the cornfield to himself," he told Dickie.

  42. Illustration] [Illustration] IX FATTY COON NEEDS HELP The moment he plunged into the woods beyond the cornfield Dickie Deer Mouse began to feel better.

  43. It was not strange, therefore, that Dickie Deer Mouse was surprised when he found himself face to face with Fatty Coon in the cornfield at midday.

  44. II The two women reached the fence that separated the cornfield from the pine woods.

  45. They had no difficulty whatever, except for the awkwardness of such a burden, in lifting him over the fence and carrying him through the cornfield to the cabin.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornfield" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.