Synonym: box, niche, nook, quoin, recess, recession, street corner, tree, turning point. Similar words: around the corner, attorney, corn, scorn, earnest, porn, born, horn. Meaning: ['kɔːnə] n. 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 4. the intersection of two streets 5. the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect 6. a small concavity 7. a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade 8. a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible 9. a projecting part where two sides or edges meet 10. a remote area 11. (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone. v. 1. gain control over 2. force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape 3. turn a corner.
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121. Their initials were sewn on the corner of every pillow.
122. They've been trying to corner the market by buying up all the wheat in sight.
123. We had to backtrack to the corner and cross the street.
124. It's the first thing you see as you come round the corner. You can't miss it.
125. The shop round the corner does shoe repairs very cheaply.
126. Is there a private corner where we can sit and talk by ourselves?
127. I hate coming out of that lane because it's a blind corner.
128. She tucked herself away in a corner and read all day.
129. I'm sure I can easily get the book from the bookstand in the corner of the main street.
130. The old man sat in the corner,(http://sentencedict.com/corner.html) pulling at his pipe.
131. He rounded a corner and walked into a narrow street.
132. Paintwork on the corner of a stairway tends to get nicked and scratched as people pass by.
133. The room was empty except for a wardrobe standing in one corner.
134. I braked at the second corner and changed down to third.
135. They had got her in a corner and there was nothing she could do about it.
136. I turned a corner and there was Joe, as large as life.
137. Athletes from every corner of the globe competed in the Games.
138. The TV station's name appears in the corner of the screen.
139. The girl broke into a trot and disappeared around the corner.
140. She put down safely in the corner of the airfield.
141. There was a large group of youths standing on the street corner.
142. The television broadcast can sent its programs to the farthest corner of the country.
143. He took careful note of the suspicious-looking man in the corner of the bar.
144. Taylor scored with a low shot into the corner of the net.
145. Homes in this corner of Mantua that once went for $350,000 are now worth nothing.
146. He broke into a run as he came round the corner.
147. Now no company seems to be able to corner the computer market.
148. He trapped Conn in a corner and pummeled him ferociously for thirty seconds.
149. You know that restaurant round the corner? It's closed down.
150. He tried to overtake three cars on a blind corner and crashed head-on into a lorry.