Example sentences for: cornish

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

  • One night, when I was in college, I went to dinner with my roommate at the Algonquin--the Algonquin! My parents were paying!--and we had Rock Cornish game hens stuffed with wild rice and chicken livers and my roommate vowed she would serve them at her wedding, and she did.

  • A writer stakes out the Cornish, N.H., home of J.D.

  • Yes, it's ironic, but predictable, that people express ambivalence toward second or heritage languages: They attack languages such as Spanish that they perceive as a threat, while defending "cute" languages like Boontling (you and I are may be the only ones in the audience who know what that is) or "antique" languages like Cornish.

  • There'd be a cheerful chef butchering a Cornish hen, Muppets singing songs about friendship, two professors and a moderator seated in a bare-bones studio discussing race relations, a helmeted fat lady singing, a Third Worlder criticizing the First World in a documentary, and the lions of the Serengeti stalking an impala herd.

  • More encouraging are the old Cornish sayings, Turn the best side to London Show off the best side of anything and Cheer up you'll live till you die!


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