Example sentences for: cornucopia

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

  • Although they needed to avoid water snakes, alligators, and disease-carrying mosquitoes, they enjoyed a cornucopia of seafood and game, flavoring it with a hot sauce the Creoles would later adopt.

  • On a more mundane contemporary level, the most popular Nagasaki lunch is a solid, nourishing bowl of chanpon: Chinese noodles in a tangy fish broth laden with a cornucopia of mushrooms, fish, prawns, vegetables, and other goodies.

  • Not so much a melting-pot as a “land of unlimited impossibilities,” Israel compresses a host of sights and lifestyles into a small area, offering a cornucopia of experiences for visitors.

  • The river is also used to irrigate the surrounding farmlands, which yield a cornucopia of rice, fruit, and vegetables.

  • There is also the learned guess, as in the etymology for groundhog , the Midland name for the eastern woodchuck, which may be a calque from Dutch aertoercken , and archaic variant of aardvarken , literally `earth pig'; or hieronymous , a euphemism for the posterior, which may derive from Greek hieron osteon , the name for the sacrum; or the southern Appalachian expression to come out of the little end of the horn meaning `to be unlucky,' which is probably an allusion to a “reverse” cornucopia.


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