Example sentences for: corn

How can you use “corn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Minutes later, Black told viewers of CNN's Crossfire that "Microsoft really was created" from "the old IBM monopoly" and that the company relied not on "innovation" but on illegal strong-arm tactics, like in The Godfather . Crossfire co-host David Corn joked that Microsoft even "stole the operating system from Apple."

  • But half of all the soybean crops and a third of all the corn in the United States are already genetically modified varieties, and the possibilities of using genetic modification to increase crop yields and protect against pesticides, to say nothing of creating vitamin-enhanced crops, are so wide-ranging that it seems difficult to imagine they will be dismissed out of hand.

  • Each rat was dosed once daily on days 1, 2 and 3 by intraperitoneal injections of either pure corn-oil vehicle or CCl 4 dissolved in corn oil (approximately 15% v/v) at a dose of 1,000 mg/kg/day [ 1 ] . Animals were euthanized by CO 2 asphyxiation and exsanguination following a 24 h fast on either day 4, 7, or 14, and tissues were harvested for analysis.

  • Bill Bradley recently called for $11 billion in "emergency" aid and reversed his longtime opposition to subsidies for ethanol, a fuel derived from corn (his thoughtful explanation: "I changed my mind").

  • The farm workers said they knew they had breathed poison moments after a crop-duster buzzed nearby, spraying a field of sweet corn with pesticides to kill mites and worms.


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