Corner

The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder.

The chimney corner was full of cobwebs.

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner.

Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.

The liquor store on the corner also sold lottery tickets.

corner store, corner deli, corner newsagent

Shining a light in the dark corners of the mind.  I took a trip out to his corner of town.

Why, that’s the lady: all the world desires her; / From the four corners of the earth they come, / To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:

Indian English is today one of the most widespread and abundantly used varieties of English, in extensive use not only throughout South Asia but in virtually every corner of the globe.

On weekends, Emily liked to find a quiet corner and curl up with a good book.

In the 1970s, private investors tried to get a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

It's not my oppression, it's not your oppression but rather our oppression. No one of us has a corner on oppression.

The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.

There are runners on the corners with just one out.

Welcome to our English corner.

The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand.

In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.

The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court.

The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.

It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.

As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.

That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.

Tool for cornering and cutting off copper switch blades

Big firms received rebates from railroads in which they owned stock, paid off city officials in order to obtain a low-cost water supply, and fought meat-inspection laws, and meat packers speculated in pork and beef corners.

Indeed, the whole aspect of the Corner, with its open space and green lawns, is so different from what it once was that it requires a glance at the sturdy brick wall of Buckingham Palace Gardens […] to assure the wanderer that, after all, nothing very revolutionary has occurred, and that things are much as they used to be twenty years ago.