Example sentences for: cornered

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

  • In the days since The Speech, the papers have been fairly spattered with editorial complaints that Bill Clinton should have come clean seven months ago--he shouldn't have had to be cornered first.

  • Lest you think that Dubya has cornered the market on this form of cribbing, the piece reports that in 1996, the ranks of Clinton-Gore donors included an 11-year-old.

  • At any rate, when Bill was finally cornered by the school bully and forced to blurt the truth, Hillary was revealed to be not just a wronged woman but a lousy lawyer--and she was most gratifyingly furious.

  • Rockefeller cornered the market on a natural resource simply by wrenching it out of other people's hands.

  • They've cornered the market on generic, political-sounding names-Politics.com, Voter.com, Vote.com, SpeakOut.com, etc., but none has yet to turn a profit.


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