Cob in example sentence

A man dressed in thin Tussur silk, yellow and ill-fitting as the shuck on a dried cob, and absolutely colorless as to his face, nodded to him and asked languidly:"Who are you for?""No?

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After that, you need rain every three weeks for the crop to form its leaves, whereas at flowering, you need it to rain more frequently, about once every 10 days for the crop to form its cob.

So in order to survive, she started selling elotes, or corn on the cob, on the street, as a street vendor.

I lived in Ireland, built the first straw-bale houses in Ireland, and some cob buildings and all this kind of thing.

It has a tangible atmosphere and I found myself wishing I could be there away from it all, cooking my corn on the cob at my bedside table.

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