cornflakes
or corn flakes
a packaged breakfast cereal in the form of small toasted flakes made from corn, for serving cold with milk, sugar, etc.
Origin of cornflakes
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How to use cornflakes in a sentence
Shards of maple tuile carpet the surface and crackle like cornflakes.
Oyster Oyster, meatless and marvelous, has become one of D.C.’s best restaurants | Tom Sietsema | September 10, 2021 | Washington PostOne of his men put a bowl of cornflakes in front of him and a pot of hot tea.
Arafat’s Polonium Poisoning Mystery Resurfaces | Christopher Dickey | November 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAdd cornflakes until substance will hold shape when dropped from teaspoon, on to buttered paper.
Stevenson Memorial Cook Book | VariousWe stood and looked down at them: A bowl of cornflakes and a silver spoon.
Double or Nothing | Jack SharkeyIn the meantime, the avian population in the region is on the increase, thanks to all those cornflakes-and-firefly dinners.
Double or Nothing | Jack Sharkey
What was the precise distribution and dampness of each of those soggy cornflakes!
Double or Nothing | Jack SharkeyIt 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.
Beginners Luck | Emily Hahn
British Dictionary definitions for cornflakes
/ (ˈkɔːnˌfleɪks) /
a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
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