Example sentences for: cornered

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

  • With Africana , where Gates and Appiah, rather sentimentally and opportunistically, see themselves as the descendants of Du Bois, whose unfilled dream was to produce such a book, Gates seems to have cornered the market on black reference books that shape the canon of black studies, that define the field and its major players.

  • 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.

  • After five days of self-imposed starvation, Harry cornered him behind an aviary and fed him, and he immediately jerked away, running and flapping to the water's edge where he sat with a pouch full of fish.

  • A cornered beast, terrorized and terrorizing.

  • A reporter from a major publication cornered me recently, and said: "Nathan, I only have a couple of minutes.


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