cornflake

Examples

• All

• Archie always comes home starving and has to be given soup or cornflakes before he goes to bed.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "In the kitchen a few minutes later, his mother put the yellow cornflakes box on the table with a bowl and a banana."

  Fiction book (2002)

• And then I got up to have my cornflakes, there was none left.

  Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

• I was eating cornflakes for two days!

  Woodstock (1970)

• "I hope you bought cornflakes," he told her.

  Fiction book (1995)

• A lot of people just went back to their coffee and cornflakes.

  The Report (2019)

• The next morning, over a bowl of cornflakes, Carl waited for the phone to ring.

  Fiction book (1998)

• So, I ate a big bowl of cornflakes, shared with the kitten, and lay down for a while.

  Blog text (18)

• It's supposed to have a cornflake topping, but we didn't have any, so I improvised.

  Church Ball (2006)

• Every morning, I eat a bowl of cornflakes with milk and fruit.

Synonyms

C

corn flake

vscornflake

9 1.0

A thin crisp toasted piece made from corn eaten for breakfast with milk

is the same item but described without explicitly mentioning milk

C

cornflakes

vscornflake

1.0

Thin, crisp pieces of corn eaten with milk for breakfast

is presented as a single item rather than a plural serving form

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