Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: corners
IPA transcription: [k'ɔɹnɚz]
Pronunciations of corners
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Usage examples
  • The yellow, scratched and shabby wall-paper was black in the corners.
  • The corners of my mouth were twitching, and I think that struck him particularly.
  • Look!' She held it out, and the children, holding it by its yielding corners, read--
  • Haven't you seen children here at the street corners sent out by their mothers to beg?
  • Frightened, they huddled in the corners, and then, finding themselves safe, gave vent to their spite.
  • It seemed to him that there was just the least little hint of a smile in the corners of Grandfather Frog's big mouth.
  • 'Pooh, pooh, my dear Sir,' said the little man, untying the bundle, and glancing eagerly at Mr. Pickwick out of the corners of his eyes.
  • Alders and sweetbriers grew in his fence corners undisturbed that spring if he discovered that they sheltered an anxious-eyed little mother.
  • But this maiden will not bear to be handled, nor dragged through the streets, nor exposed either at the corners of the market-places, or in the closets of palaces.
  • The two eldest sisters would do nothing but sulk in corners, while Beauty swept the floors and washed the dishes, and did her best to make the poor cottage pleasant.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Western (genre), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording 1968 Illinois earthquake, License CC BY-SA 4.0