How To Use Cornucopia In A Sentence
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I had a look at the company's website and they were storing a veritable cornucopia of combustibles in that place including naptha, a substance used in dry cleaning.
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The pervasiveness of this illustration confirms the significant role of the Christmas tree, decorated with tiny toys, edibles, candies, or handmade ornaments - the favorite one being paper cornucopias.
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I felt very sophisticated walking around the Coliseum, listening to the oohs and aahs about the refurbishment, and the gasps about the cornucopia of Ladies' loos.
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Peak coal will follow peak oil by about 20 years, maybe 10 if we pursue the insane delusions of the cornucopians who think that trying make Nazi oil and pumping all the carbon of the coal fields into the atmosphere is a good idea.
No Snickers bars? Blame Peak Oil (Jack Bog's Blog)
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I was in Heaven, smelling everything, grinning from east to west with the salivary promise of an upended cornucopia.
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One by one they argue the reasons they're not guilty of a cornucopia of offences ranging from illegal parking and moving violations, to tossing their garbage on the wrong day.
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Situated on the ground floor of the Natural History complex inside the Museum premises, the Museum Library is a cornucopia of books on subjects ranging from Taxidermy to maintenance of gardens.
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In the growing light lorries unloaded: from under their canvas what seemed a cornucopia, a river of flower heads, flowed.
COUP D'ETAT
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Everyone loved how we deflected their thoughts from the scurrilous rumors of a government-instigated famine in the Ukraine with a veritable cornucopia of terpsichorean appetizers!
Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer
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It has created millions of jobs from Malaysia to Mexico and a cornucopia of affordable goods for Western consumers.
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The sad, ghostly taste of our imported fruit is, here, transformed into a steepling cornucopia of astonishingly beautiful things.
Times, Sunday Times
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We found old baskets, a hand-painted antique serving tray, a child's chicken pull toy, a cornucopia, weathered vases and awesome iron candlesticks.
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Emblematic of abundance, the cornucopia - or horn of plenty - represents the horn of Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology.
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And of course there was the cornucopia of the ice machine, which disgorged a torrent of pure perfect cubes at the touch of a button.
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It was the signal for us to assemble in his bailiwick, where we would find a waiting cornucopia of edibles: apples, oranges, candy, dried fruits, nuts, cookies, soft drinks.
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We are being promised a cornucopia of programming.
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I cannot recall the exact source offhand, Sumer I think but compound imagery was the mode of explaining cosmogenesis and theogony in pre-literate and pari-literate times and we find the residue of similar explicatory "myths" in subsequent sets of icons such as Anahita, whose personification of a complete cornucopia is evident in her titulary associations with "water" and all living things.
Disagreement Behind the Scenes
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Perhaps this is what is implied by the folk pluralisation of the word internet: It is a venue for the cornucopia of human converse.
John Hodgman on "meh" - Waxy.org
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A quick flick through Time Out will show you a cornucopia of options.
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Bring the cornucopia or other symbol of thanksgiving that you used last week.
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However, our readers require more and so I must try to do justice to this cornucopia of consumable marvels.
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The rare cornucopia shown in Plate XVI is embellished with free-floating murrhine and entwined with a seventeenth-century-style crested serpent.
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But the food giant certainly seems friendly, offering consumers a cornucopia of food choices at low prices.
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The figure of Ceres on the stem of the cup holds a cornucopia.
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I find myself distracted by a cornucopia of seriously hot women in Washington, women of various ages and ethnicities and body types who seem disproportionately alluring to me.
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Bring a cornucopia or other symbol of thanksgiving and photos of some of your friends, the children you meet, and members of the church family.
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It's home to a cornucopia of delis, gourmet stores, boutiques and cosy little restaurants.
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Perhaps this cornucopia of educational opportunities is befogging you.
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This subtle critique is best expressed by Horn of Plenty, an internally illuminated cornucopia that virtually drips with paper chains, charms, crystals and a strand of graduated pearls.
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The clouds on all sides brailed into azure radiance, and the whirlpool of the tearing winds opened into a luminous cornucopia.
In Other Worlds
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Abandoning print for pixels provides me with a cornucopia of news and information just a few mouse clicks away.
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These were decorated using stencils and bronze powders (which were less expensive than paints) with motifs such as cornucopias, baskets of flowers, trailing vines, and a wide variety of decorative patterns.
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Viewing this piscine cornucopia, Baldwin was struck with the thought, ‘There's so much here every day.’
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Diligent shoppers who seek out the "shoppe" are offered a veritable cornucopia of rock, stone and gravel-related gift items.
RVABlogs
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Still, for those of us lucky enough to be invited, the Forum will, as usual, provide a cornucopia of intellectual stimulation, even if those of us who pack our skis for the annual trip are feeling somewhat cheated.
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Cornucopia, an organic industry watchdog, first investigated the use of these "novel" nutritional oils, derived from soil fungus and algae, in infant formula, because they are extracted using a neurotoxic chemical, hexane, which is explicitly banned in organic production.
Foodconsumer.org
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There's a cornucopia of cakery in here: cheesecake, coconut cake, and - above all else - Jamaican Ginger Cake.
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It must have been a tricky task to decide which opera, from this cornucopia, to select for resuscitation.
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The fifth annual five-day event boasts art, food and shelter for the homeless, a cornucopia of artsy performances and a chance to mingle with artists.
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Veggies, vegans and grumbling carnivores can all sit down together at this cosmopolitan cornucopia of fusion cooking, finds Joanna Blythman
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The Visual Arts Gallery is hosting the exhibition titled ‘Dreams’ a cornucopia of digital media printed on canvas.
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The cornucopia had stubbornly remained through her six years of checkups, gathering dust, the reds and oranges fading on the waxy peels.
MINUTES TO BURN
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They could be diary poems like Clive James' dirges but the passion and love and guilt and everything else pour out of the Hughes poems like an emotional cornucopia - a death note maybe but a special one.
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The result is a cornucopia of detailed information.
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Although the author does not mention it, you can see, from the useful illustrations contained here, that the cornucopia in Britannia's hand has been transformed into a sword in the hand of Leviathan.
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CAMBODIA Most famous for its "killing fields" and recurrent strife that ended only recently, Cambodia is also a nation of sensual tropical pleasures: exotic fruits, coarse silks and a cornucopia of rivers and lakes.
Luxury On the Edge
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The markets are a cornucopia of tribal handicrafts.
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I cannot accept that trained professionals with a cornucopia of offensive weapons at their disposal can't remain calm and professional in crowd control situations.
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He soon became a cornucopia of trivia, and one day decided to have a shot at creating his own puzzle, just for a lark.
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The cars that hurriedly zipped on by whilst I sat in behind the taxi driver who was encased in bullet proof plastic were a cornucopia of BMWs, Mercedes, Range Rovers and the odd Holden to boot.
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That first Cornucopia, looks like a diverticulated intestine, or the sliced off piece of the brain from someone with alzheimers.
Wrecktopia of Cornucopias
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The series, so very loosely based on the Eastman and Laird comic book creation, spawned a cornucopia of merchandise, some feature films, and a live action TV show.
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However, the cornucopia finial of the original has been replaced by a pink-tongued dragon.
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I get lost among the cornucopias of chotkies and tat, and am somehow spilled back out to the main Jemaa El F'na Square, where one charmeurs de serpent pulls me under his black umbrella and wags his head at his Egyptian Cobra actually, Naja haje legionis, a sub-species found in southern Morocco as his associate blows his bagpipe-like melody in his ghaita.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
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This cornucopia of all things interesting and Irish continues with a large offering of Irish silverware.
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Manchester Science Festival, ManchesterThis might be the season of superstition and spooks, but since science is more unbelievable, wondrous and scary than fiction, it's apt timing for Manchester's cornucopia of explorative events (more than 200 of them).
This week's new events
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Twenty-two years later, despite its cornucopia of Oscars, this was now a film largely forgotten.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves.
It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind
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Cable would offer a cornucopia of arts performances, serious drama, science, and quality programs for children and the elderly.
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For the past two months, I've been bruxing over "Cornucopia", my first story to make the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine's almost-but-not-quite-yet cut.
Archive 2005-04-01
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Sustainism offers that if properly nurtured through a cultural revolution, its nuggets of wisdom will grow to become the mighty beanstalk of ecological achievement and will bear a cornucopia of contributions toward a sustainable way of life and work as a tidier world is created in their literal image.
Michael DeJong: The Human Stain on "Sustainism"
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Most of them believe the golf cornucopia just grew, like Topsy.
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Far from being pretty and otherwise pointless, our leafy friends provide a cornucopia of benefits; and these benefits provide an ironclad logic for protecting them.
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Frosted store windows groaned with a cornucopia of Irish linens, Madras shawls, China tea, Moroccan slippers, Scottish whisky and Madeira wine.
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I thought perhaps of food, the maggoty noodles, and then I thought no, of some great feast, baskets and platters and cornucopias.
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Duke of Marlborough brandishing a truncheon upon a sign-post, surrounded with types and emblems, and canopied with cornucopias that disembogue their stores upon his head; Mercuries reclin'd upon bales of goods;
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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Wandering around the bench, he carted a six-pack of beer, bottles of orange and apple juice, and a cornucopia of soft drink cans over to the sink.
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Neither ‘new’ nor entirely ‘forest’, the New Forest is a cornucopia of habitats, a haven of beauty surrounded by intensively managed farmland and conurbations.
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A cornucopia of flowers bursts through rockery walls.
What Does A $75 Million Luxury House Look Like?
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With Edinburgh playing host to a cornucopia of festivals over the coming month, it can be difficult to step back and take each individual programme on its own merit.
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But if, like me, you're too busy to buy raw ingredients, you might want to instead head to a shop where a cornucopia of ready-made Italian meals awaits.
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Asian powers such as China and Japan have economies dependent on exports and are eager to supply us with a cornucopia of goods.
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One scribe will probably make something like an inverted cornucopia, or wiredrawn extinguisher; and one will cross it with a dash, and another with a loop; while another will make
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852
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If celebrities were food, most would have been a five-course gourmet dinner, slaved over lovingly to the point of succulence, a cornucopia of flavours, some rich, some exotic, some spiced, some delicately subtle.
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Left, a Sagalassos city coin dating to the early third century A.D. and representing a Tyche (Fortuna) holding a cornucopia (right) crowning a cuirassed and helmeted soldier (left), identified as "Lakedaimon of the Sagalassians.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Small Finds Conservation Report 4
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There's a cornucopia of concordances, colloquia and other such academic extravagances.
Times, Sunday Times
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IT was lovely, thought Mrs. Miniver, nodding good-bye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with a kind of ceremonious joy, as though it were a cornucopia; it was lovely, this settling down again, this tidying away of the summer into its box, this taking up of the thread of one's life where the holidays (irrelevant interlude) had made one drop it.
Mrs. Miniver