Example sentences for: cornered

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

  • 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.

  • Peter Pringle's ticktock of the legal battle, Cornered: Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice , answers the first question: The plaintiffs' lawyers and the attorneys general proved indefatigable; incriminating documents were leaked from inside the big tobacco companies; an important industry scientist defected; and, most importantly, Wall Street, fearing a bottomless payout, signaled the industry to submit.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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