corner
[ˈkɔːrnər]
Definition:
1. A place off to the side of an area.
2. The point where two lines meet or intersect.
3. An interior angle formed be two meeting walls.
'corner' example sentence:
- Walk diagonally across the field to the far corner and then turn left.
- Her house is just around the corner.
- You know that restaurant round the corner? It's closed down.
- The wind hit him as he turned the corner.
- He poked his head around the corner to check that nobody was coming.
- The car was taking the corners too fast.
- They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories.
- Students come here from the four corners of the world.
- She would spend the day hanging round street corners.
- I managed secretly to undo a corner of the parcel.
- The child sat mute in the corner of the room.
- He knew every corner of the old town.
- She sat crouched in a corner.
- Taylor scored with a low shot into the corner of the net.
- She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth.
- There was a television in the far corner of the room.
- There's a tobacconist's on the corner.
- He sat in the corner of a second-class compartment.
- Out of the corner of her eye she saw that a car had stopped.
- Young people came from the four corners of the nation.
- The children clustered together in the corner of the room.
- They had got her in a corner, and there wasn't much she could do about it.
- There was a group of youths standing on the street corner.
- I hit my knee on the corner of the table.
- The referee awarded a corner.
- I watched him from a shadowy corner.
- The house disappeared from sight as we rounded a corner.
- He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.
- They sat in a corner booth, away from other diners.
- There it is, on the corner over there.
- I sat inconspicuously in a corner.
- A smile lifted the corner of his mouth.
- Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter.
- There's a little gift shop around the corner.
- My new place is just around the corner.
- Dirt had collected in the corners of the room.
- Out of the corner of her eye, she saw him coming closer.
- He cowered in the corner, gibbering with terror.
- We can't have police officers on every corner.
- A grandfather clock ticked away in a corner.
- The man was finally cornered by police in a garage.
- He was used to talking his way out of tight corners.
- Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.
- Write your address in the top right-hand corner of the letter.
- Our house is just around the corner.
- There's a restaurant around the corner.
- They sat in a corner, away from other diners.
- The government is in a corner on interest rates.
- There were good times around the corner.
- I called him from the phone box on the corner.
- The man turned the corner and disappeared.
- I went to buy a paper at the corner dairy.
- She lives in a quiet corner of rural Yorkshire.
- There she is, coming round the corner.
- My eyes were drawn to the man in the corner.
- A bus appeared around the corner.
- They made for an empty table in the far corner.
- Peter flung his shoes into the corner.
- He reversed around the corner.
- His heroic deeds were celebrated in every corner of India.