Example sentences for: cornwall

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

  • In Cornwall the word emmet is used with exactly the same meaning and is likewise labelled mildly disparaging by the OED , which gives two citations, both of which include grockle , from 1975 and 1984.

  • Though there are three other (two very rare) relatives of heath in Scotland and two very local heaths found mainly in Dorset and Cornwall, the overall picture for the common experience in Gaeldom is one heather and two heaths in Scotland, and one heather and four (or possibly five) heaths in Ireland.

  • Salty Sayings from Cornwall

  • In a strong-minded county like Cornwall an individual may be admired as being as tough as Hancock's mother—an archetypal dragon lady rooted in local history.

  • Another metal, tin—for which the Phoenicians used to sail as far from Tyre and Sidon to the mines on the coast of Cornwall nearly three millennia ago—bears a Latin symbol short for another metallic substance: Sn, for stannum , a Roman-era amalgam of silver and lead.


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