How To Use Corner In A Sentence

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Try feeling a little "schlubby" popping around the corner for a newspaper. Wine Shopping in San Francisco, Italian Style
It was of average size with an unmade bed sitting in one corner, a night table, two dressers, a bureau, a desk, a small TV, and a lot of posters on the wall.
And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
He's sulking in a corner somewhere because I wouldn't let him have a second bar of chocolate.

Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
Drill a hole in each corner.
What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance. Archive 2008-03-01
I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
His brother Jeremiah played a stormer at corner back and his accurate deliveries to his forwards were one of the highlights of his play.
Harte fired the ball into the bottom corner before heading for the corner flag to celebrate.
The first pitch was low and over the outside corner.
For the last five years, he's been a fixture on Houston street corners begging for money, a life Edwards describes as dehumanizing and empty. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
Lia was looking around her shoulder, as if she was expecting a stampede of wild animals to come charging down the corner.
York were immediately on the back foot but repelled a series of short corners and managed to engineer a breakaway attack.
A moment later a woman appeared at a corner of the room in which they sat. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
We chuckled together as she stood and reached up to the top shelf of a grand bookcase in the corner.
I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
Revolutionary applications of BEC in lithography, nanotechnology and holography appear to be just round the corner. The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics - Information for the Public
A dab of pale lilac or silver on the inner corner of the eye will make your eyes look whiter and brighter, giving an instant youth punch. The Sun
She pointed to a heap of insensate lobsters piled in a corner.
The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. In the Wrong Paradise
And the club has been receiving messages of support from far-flung corners of the globe.
If the cops camped out at the corner of Spadina and College, they could cover the costs of their salaries by ticketing bike-lane parkers.
Somewhere in the darkest, dingiest corner of hell, Andrew Wilson is laughing," Beuke told jurors. Jon Burge Trial: Jury Begins Deliberations
The clothes lay huddled up in a pile in the corner.
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
Speaking of rounding tight corners, the Daily News reports that some messengers attempted to promote cycling in Queens this past weekend by holding an alleycat called "BLVDS of DEATH: Archive 2010-09-01
These connect from the motherboard to the front panel on the top corner of the case.
Probably by breaking off from a frame to do a quick poo in the corner of the auditorium.
Let's pile up the fallen leaves in the corner and sweep up the floor.
Round off the corners with a pair of scissors.
Ben watched her as she worked, wisps of her hair falling about her face and her tongue just visibly poking out of the corner of her mouth as she concentrated.
Several Cowboys, most notably cornerback Deion Sanders, are due to receive substantial amounts of money that year.
It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
Even pieces of rags were shoved into the gaps peeping through the corners of its locked door.
However, unlike the Buicks of the recent past, the tail lamp is not a single cross-car strip, but simply at each of the corners.
From his swank corner office on the 50th floor, Cuban-born Jose Fernandez really is at the top of his game.
We ordered moussaka and dolmas and ate them on a nearby street corner with some wine.
The bed stood in one corner, a rough wooden frame hooked to the wall and ropes looping back and forth to support a mattress. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
There was one bathroom with a shower stall in the corner.
He winks out of the corner of his eye at me and says, 'Your old daddy is tough isn't he?' and shows me the end of his thumb calloused and hard as the knurl of white oak; only fire could clean it to the original skin. Confessions of Boyhood
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A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
Designed with a center emphasis, the fabrics are arranged in rings of hexagons, with four additional rosettes in the corners.
Armstrong said the Spaniard's tyre had punctured as they braked for a corner.
There's always like two ladies that look like Katherine Harris sitting in the corner, like ‘We used to be majorettes.’
Controlling the tempo is a strategy, going back to the 4-corners in college ball, and the ability to do it well indicates defensive skill. Matthew Yglesias » Go Slow
They plan to situate the bus stop at the corner of the road.
Note, Scorners that laugh at what they see and hear that is above their capacity, are not proper witnesses of the wonderful works of Christ, the glory of which lies not in pomp, but in power. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
This new circuit will allow for the testing of braking system performance in snow and ice conditions on sharp corners and twisty turns.
A range of software, shareware and applications emerge nearly every other day from different corners of the Tamil speaking world.
At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
How the books (not having been chosen with reference to this great event) were of awkward sizes, and did not make comfortable paving for the bottom of the trunk; whilst folded stockings may be called the packer's delight, from their usefulness to fill up corners. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
Sure enough, hidden in a corner there was a shelf dedicated to the previous school years' yearbooks.
Underachievers, they were known for losing the mildest battle of nerves, not a cornered tiger among them.
Then the '90s hit, corporations further alienated people with touch-tone technology, and we all learned that the little guy on the lower-right corner of our dial pad had an easier to pronounce name than ‘#.’
The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
The room was empty except for a wardrobe standing in one corner.
In patients with diastolic dysfunction, the cornerstones of treatment depend on the underlying cause.
The rain was steady, and as they rounded a corner alongside the estuary, they saw the fires were beginning to abate. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
The lack of laughter in the auditorium is offset only by our blind hope that there is method in this madness and that an explanation is around the corner.
Hockey is an 11-a-side game played over two halves of 35 minutes, with goals more often than not coming from set-pieces such as corners or penalties.
On a highboy in the corner of the dining room rests a handsome, black-and-white portrait of Jean, then a stunner in her early 20s, and James, clad in his Army uniform. Jean Stevens, Wyalusing Widow, Lived With Corpses Of Husband And Twin Sister, Say Police
At that house, he would stop playing his game of solitaire over in the corner table and, cigar-smoke billowing around his massive figure, have me ask him in Yiddish -- bitte mia gelt -- "please give me some money," before peeling off a fresh ten soles bill. David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son
His cornermen were unable to stop the bleeding between rounds, and the southpaw fought the entire second round with blood streaming down his face.
There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. Sketches by Boz
She saw a tube of lipstick out of the corner of her eye and applied it to her lips before smacking them together looking at the result before grimacing and swiping it from her lips.
When he glanced back at the corner, jaw setting, she laid her hand on his arm.
The camouflage Humvees were on every corner topped by national guardsmen.
I hunt, corner and finally squash a wasp against the window. Times, Sunday Times
The glass pavilion, designed by Dirk van Pastel, is in the western corner of a triangular site, surrounded by the woods and fields of Burgundy.
Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.
The atmosphere of foredoomed defeat in his own corner had no effect on him. The Mexican
The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
The room seemed very well kept and there was an antique desk in the corner that was piled with papers and documents.
We'd been keeping the bookplates in an unoccupied corner in a reasonably neat pile.
Elections, after all, are the very cornerstone of our dream of effective self-rule. What can we expect of democracy?
He had his back to goal and flicked his volley into the corner. The Sun
Then we confront a full view of the main sanctuary shot from the southwest corner of the inner compound.
I have actually heard one of the co-leaders of the Greens say that we should not be allowed to drive to the corner dairy - we should be forced to walk.
Twice he declined a pot at goal and opted to kick to the corner despite defending a narrow three-point lead.
From the corner Farley headed in unopposed at the far post to level things up at 2-2.
he knocked off the corners
The child who is peeking around the corner of the chair is a little girl.
Four silent soldiers with bowed heads stood at each corner of the bier.
He left his clothes in a muddled pile in the corner.
Figure 5 provides an illustration of the corner tracking-error issue when negotiating a curve in a road.
Good, I hadn't forgotten anything, and the guard was snoring slightly in the corner.
We were driving most unaggressively across a small plaza, with a driver and a friend on the box beside him to help keep us from harm, when a trolley-car came wildly round a corner at the speed of at least two miles an hour and crossed our track. Familiar Spanish Travels
Edward de Bono has seemingly cornered the market, and publishers are reluctant to try to take on the champ.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room. Little Dorrit
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When Hawkins missed a difficult green the colour finished hanging over a corner pocket and Parrott was left in a full ball snooker.
I bought a bottle of Thandai syrup for Holi is around the corner though we will be on the train on the day. Archive 2008-04-01
Accornero, a 24-year law enforcement veteran, was appointed chief in 1994.
As he flew into sharp corners, it seemed the defending champion had taken leave of his senses. Times, Sunday Times
Pride, dedication, and quality are the three cornerstones on which the company operates.
To put it simply, this bike climbs like a squirrel, descends like a greased squirrel on a luge, corners like a decagon, and accelerates like a methamphetamine-addicted rabbit. Happy Birthday To Me: BSNYC Turns 1
I looked over and watching the saliva encrusting in the corner of Larry's mouth, my heart sank. God
Having two heavyweights in its corner will give it more clout when dealing with governments. Times, Sunday Times
‘Our goal scoring went up, we could score field goals, we could score from penalty corners,’ he said.
The last of the turkey has been demolished, the new toys lie in a corner and the Christmas tree is shedding its needles at a rate of knots.
She turned another corner, heading towards the north end of the castle.
The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone). Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
It has an adaptive suspension with different settings, based on a system of independently controlled damping at all four corners of the car.
For instance, I didn't recall the cornered man in the second scenario saying he didn't want anyone to get hurt.
Sure enough, the book has sex, death, trains and double-crosses in far-flung corners of Nazi-occupied Europe.
Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
Rotherham did not help their cause when they had a player sent off for dissent after arguing the decision to award a short corner.
The blue and yellow Saxon flag, with the black and yellow chevron in the field and a lozenged chaplet from the left corner to the top, was more frequently seen than any other banner. Barbara Blomberg — Complete
The donkeys and horses were gone, and a cluster of damaged buggies stood by the street corner, like unwashed dishes in a sink. Times, Sunday Times
Here, as we have seen, their ruler was the pro-Roman queen, Cartimandua whose seat may have been at Stanwick, near Scotch Corner.
The serial number of the security must appear in the top right-hand corner of each security, on any talon and on each coupon (if any).
And it seems the obligatory pungent cigarette, clamped firmly in the corner of the mouth, is a necessary aid to concentration.
A small gas - jet furnished sufficient light for so rueful a corner.
Emerging from the subway to see an upturned hot-dog cart on the corner of Franklin Street.
The site of the Shakespeare, on the corner of Lionel Street was home to a coopery or barrel maker when most of this area was then part of the Colmore estate.
Spoon the crumbs into the tart tin and smooth into the corners and up the sides.
Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
She used to keep the corner piece of steak pie aside just for me. The Sun
His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
She stood on the chair and set the vase at one corner of the top of the cabinet.
Frank led a raiding party of eight men who eventually succeeded in cornering the goat after a two-hour operation.
Everyone turned to see who had spoken, and there in the corner stood an elderly courtier, one of the king's most trusted advisers.
And, indeed, so solitary and remote is this ancient edifice, and so simple is the mode of living of the people in this by-corner of Spain, that the appearance of even a sorry calesa might well cause astonishment. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
We live literally just round the corner from her.
In working with organometallic compounds, for example, he placed the metal atom at the center of a geometric figure (such as a cube) and surrounded it with other atoms, ions, and groups of atom at the corners of the figure.
In addition to the line, the secondary is a question mark for the Terrapins, who will be looking for Kenny Tate and Antwine Perez to step up their game now that they are the projected starters at safety, while redshirt freshman Dexter McDougle could find himself starting at corner. Around the Atlantic Coast Conference
Sundial maker Malcolm Barnfield and stonemason Dave Baguley installed the beautiful stone sundial at the top north-west corner of The Wilds, on Sunday, 8 May.
That white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you are really thirsty is smarter than you will ever be. Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers.
All it takes is a single brush of color across the lids or under the eyes or a touch at the outer corners.
A corbel is a stone bracket that projects from a wall or corner, either to support a beam or for decoration. Medieval corbel found in York
He sells records by the lorry load - and commuters in the capital are falling over buskers on every street corner.
It had something to do with sex—complete with pictures—and the dog-eared corners attested to its being quickly stashed under mattresses in numerous adolescent occupied homes.
“Never, while there are empty-pated coxcombs at each corner to keep it warm.” The Abbot
The turn of a corner, like the flick of a film frame, can redefine the nature of a disjunctive, heterogeneous spatial continuum.
The mayor laid the cornerstone of the new library.
James Ponsoldt: This notion is at the core of Killer of Sheep: what it means to be an adult, and how children learn and internalize grown-up behavior and responsibilities through lectures, through tears, but mostly by silently observing, peeking around corners, usually unbeknownst to their parents. GreenCine Daily: Filmmaker. Spring 07.
14 April 2005 @ 11: 37 am no doubt correct ... but I object, because I have no specific term for an easy class, I work out in tennies, not tennis shoes, and I'll use both "kitty corner" and "diagonal" as the mood suits. No doubt correct...
It came after Shane Williams was mullered in the corner. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Athletes from every corner of the globe competed in the Games.
They crouched in the cobwebby corner behind a pile of boxes.
The verdict is in from the blue corner. Times, Sunday Times
At each corner of the square slab stood four upright stelae.
But I am saying that every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the whole picture. Sunday Reading
I did a very good lap: the car was understeering a bit too much at low speed, but it was very stable in the high-speed corners.
Previous to her marriage she was head "saleslady" at the "Little Sailor" * novelty shop, corner of Quai Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
First, at corner exits, it pulls like hell, like it has deployed some magical torque spinnaker. BMW 1M: Miniature, Mighty and Miles of Fun
This time the striker didn't need any assistance with his superb 25-yard shot arrowing into the top corner.
The quarry firm has claimed that reducing blasts to the level suggested would affect the economic viability of the south-east corner of the quarry, which only has a short lifespan.
In the corner sat a group of guys from Chicago, who were there for the cards, the dice and the roulette wheel, and maybe even a little skiing if time permitted.
That extra tail-weight partly explains why the Octavia feels eager to point into a corner despite its soft and very comfortable springing, making it a surprisingly enjoyable car for a keen driver, apart from the overly snatchy brakes.
A four piece jazz band was assembled in the corner, playing for the customers.
The lowest corner of this ditch should lead to a soakaway pit. Chapter 3
In shady corners, deeper in the wood, the fragrant pyrola lifted its scape of clustering bells, like a lily of the valley wandered to the forest. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
The city in which you're driving is huge, and filled with people who quite sensibly run screaming when you screech around the corner.
The main bathroom has a corner bath with shower attachment and part tiled walls, while additional storage is available in the hot press and attic.
Along the way he identified a particular type of smile that engages both the zygomatic major and the orbicularis oculi — muscles that raise the corners of the mouth and cheeks, respectively.
People come from the four corners of the earth to attend the annual festival.
She felt this blessing now and kissed his temple, and then a corner of one salty eye.
As they went back to the register, Allie's gaze fell on a mannikin in the corner. GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN
The glass walls slide open at the corner to bring the outside in. Times, Sunday Times
This Pavlovian addiction gets magnified when the merchandising of the cartoon characters starts entering into every nook and corner of the house, be it the lunch box, the school note book or the bathroom towel.
The room was completely silent other than the sound of dripping water from a corner of the room.
Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
They were laid in gypsiferous clay, a mass of which lay close to the southwest corner. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
The problem I have encountered with the speed bumps is the brat pack that hangs about on the corner of Keswick Street.
I sighed, rolled my head around to look at her: huddled up into her corner of the carriage, hugging her knees with feet on the upholstery.
Such issues of consent are the cornerstone of the law and needed to be carefully considered. The Sun
I had this old habit of speeding along the old country roads late at night and dipping my headlights before going around corners or going over the brows of hills.
Road tires stick better in corners, roll more effortlessly and don't make that knobby buzz.
Brunt, following in, despatched a meaty drive into the far corner from near the edge of the area. Times, Sunday Times
Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour.
Miguel glared back like a cornered rat, lifting himself up with the stick.
McSherry scored an inspirational point from a tight angle when he was forced to shoot from the right corner.
The prostyle is in all respects like the temple in antis, except that at the corners, opposite the antae, it has two columns, and that it has architraves not only in front, as in the case of the temple in antis, but also one to the right and one to the left in the wings. The Ten Books on Architecture
Some time about the year 1827, two sturdy lads, tall and well proportioned but clad in homespun and barefooted, came to "Dryden Corners" from the South Hill neighborhood, driving an ox team and bringing to market a wagon load of pine shingles which they had shaved by hand. Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives
With the jury still out, we retreat to the back corner of the court.
A superior actor might have turned the corner on this film.
Shape the sticks into batons by shaving off the square corners and pointing the ends.
In the far right corner there was a bookshelf stuffed to the brim with books on history and folklore and legends.
There was a cask of water with a ladle in the far corner of the yard.
The case here was endimic at the place throughout the 90s, at least, as were other outrages and abuses (I know about this … managers who couldn’t care less let underage stockers tool around in forklifts that they have no training, and one I know of even tipped the forklift over going around a corner too fast). Wal-smart « BuzzMachine
The boxer gave a little skip as he came out of his corner.
No one can outrun someone by running backwards, so don't try… if you are facing someone and decide to run, step cornerwise back, turning and running at the same time.
When he gets excited you see the corners of his mouth begin to froth up. Times, Sunday Times
What I laughingly refer to as my garden is a corner lot by our postage-stamp size house.
There was a closet in the farthest corner and a door to a balcony.
At the extreme north-west corner of Ngargo Island, near a massive bomb-scar in the rocky cliff, lies a very curious wreck.
He rounded the upcoming corner as only he could; a jump and flip, then a spring off the wall of an adjacent building.
Javier Oliva-Madrid carried about $18,000 in rumpled small bills into a Tysons Corner car dealership to help pay for a Toyota 4Runner. Probe reveals inner workings of ring shipping drugs from Mexico to D.C. area
I say, Kink, don't forget the saleratus on the corner shelf back of the stove. Too Much Gold
Towards the north-east corner of the site there was a shrine which later became the site for a small Roman temple.

How To Use Corner In A Sentence

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