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Example sentences for "one corner"

  • A little well of the clearest water filled a mossy hollow in one corner.

  • In one corner was a door, apparently of a cupboard in the wall, but which might lead to a room beyond.

  • The alfalfa field sloped upward at one corner, lay like a bright green-and-purple handkerchief thrown down on the hillside.

  • Mr. Wheeler winked, and Yoeder's grim mouth twitched at one corner.

  • In one corner a staircase led to the story above--and from above, quite audibly now, he caught the sound of snoring.

  • These articles had been packed by her hands; and in one corner, among the underclothes on which she had neatly sewed my initials, lay the new Bible she had bought.

  • Toys and school-books strewed the floor, a sewing-bag and apron lay across the sofa, and in one corner was a roll-topped desk of varnished oak.

  • It was the middle of a February afternoon, and they were seated in deep, leather chairs in one corner of the reading room of the Boyne Club.

  • So the Scarecrow led her through the trees until they reached the cottage, and Dorothy entered and found a bed of dried leaves in one corner.

  • Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.

  • He pointed to one corner, in which lay the great Head, made out of many thicknesses of paper, and with a carefully painted face.

  • At one corner of the room was a heavy door.

  • When they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner of the yard, the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany, and spitting on it for luck, lazily went each to his horse's head.

  • A chimney is easily made by turning up one corner of the roof.

  • There is nothing awe-inspiring in the brown stone figure, battered and cracked, that stands at one corner of the bridge, over the chasm at the entrance of the city.

  • His store is a rusty warehouse, low and musty, piled full of boxes of soap and candles and dried fish, with a little glass cubby in one corner, where a thin clerk sits at a high desk, like a spider in his web.

  • The supper table was already set in the middle of the room; and over in one corner was a big white bed--with a trundle bed (not visible) under it.

  • Nothing had touched David so deeply as the discovery in one corner of the farm of that field of hemp: his father had secretly raised it to be a surprise to him, to help him through his ministerial studies.

  • In one corner, the ground was too shaded by an old apple tree to be of use: they gave this to Gabriella for her garden.

  • My poor husband, who for twelve hours had not left me, overcome with fatigue and emotion, was crying and laughing in one corner of the room.

  • And as he says this the sly fellow eyes a pile of parcels and packages heaped up in one corner, visible despite the semidarkness.

  • The house within was clean and poor; only a few books upon a shelf distinguished it, and (in one corner) Secundra's little bench.

  • At length he raised his face and looked upon us, that is to say upon my lord, Mountain, and myself, sitting close round a small fire, which had been made for privacy in one corner of the camp.

  • An empty violin case in one corner faced a broken bust of Rossini in another.

  • A nervous contraction at one corner of her mouth drew up the lips out of the symmetrically right line, when, they moved.

  • I noticed that one of his eyes had received a severe jab in one corner, which was red and inflamed, and that all over his face were tiny round marks about the size of the end of an uncut lead pencil.

  • One corner of my pasture is in sixteen miles of the town.

  • No one was about, so she ventured to peep in, and her surprise was increased at seeing, heaped up in one corner, a quantity of food of all sorts, while a little robin redbreast stood perched on a beam looking down upon her.

  • At last they locked it in a cupboard in one corner of their room, and as there was no hole anywhere the ball could not possibly get out.

  • It was quite dark when the lion came home, where his brother was sitting curled up in one corner.

  • I caught Johnson's drive and went on down river with him to the lake," replied Newmark, thrusting the offered cigar in one corner of his mouth and shaking his head at Orde's proffer of a light.

  • Newmark received the news of his partner's sudden marriage without evincing any surprise, but with a sardonic gleam in one corner of his eye.

  • A piano was, of course, out of the question, but the great golden harp occupied one corner, or rather one side, of the parlour.

  • As always, he was immaculately dressed in neat gray clothes, and carried in one corner of his mouth an unlighted cigar.

  • A dim light showed a rude bed in one corner and a pine table close by, whereon lay a few books and a pen and an ink-bottle.

  • A rough bed stood in one corner; a few utensils hung near the fireplace, wherein were remnants of potatoes roasting in the ashes, and close to the wooden shutter which served as a window was a board table.

  • A confused chorus answered him affirmatively, and he immediately arranged Clayton in one corner of the room with his serious attendants on one side, and Raines, grave to solemnity, on the other.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one corner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    former days; one and the same; one but; one case; one end; one form; one half; one hundred and fifty; one hundred thousand francs; one hundred years ago; one instance; one kind; one large octavo volume; one night; one person; one pound; one sense; one should; one thousand; one thousand five hundred and ninety; one whom; one would; one years; profound peace; proposed marriage; seek adventures