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cornflakes
[ kawrn-fleyks ]
noun
- a packaged breakfast cereal in the form of small toasted flakes made from corn, for serving cold with milk, sugar, etc.
cornflakes
/ ˈkɔːnˌfleɪks /
plural noun
- a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of cornflakes1
Example Sentences
Shards of maple tuile carpet the surface and crackle like cornflakes.
One of his men put a bowl of cornflakes in front of him and a pot of hot tea.
Add cornflakes until substance will hold shape when dropped from teaspoon, on to buttered paper.
We stood and looked down at them: A bowl of cornflakes and a silver spoon.
In the meantime, the avian population in the region is on the increase, thanks to all those cornflakes-and-firefly dinners.
What was the precise distribution and dampness of each of those soggy cornflakes!
It was too much like that old thing that used to puzzle him so at breakfast; the picture of the girl on the box of cornflakes.
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