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Cob in sentence

15 examples of Cob in a sentence

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.
Everyone who entered the room became transfixed on the television and the haunting images of Edith and Edie who seemed to be living out their lives in practically one room of a large filthy mansion on the beach, eating ice cream and corn on the cob (which was cooked on the bedside table)--and the cat urinating on edith's bed and her unbelievable words, "i thrive on it [the smell]."
Absolutely powerful story line leaving no room for cob webs in your mind.
And the funniest scene of all is the supposedly erotic scene, involving a woman with a corn cob.
She rode quietly, on a small sturdy English cob with a close-cropped mane and short tail.
Everything in that face: the definiteness of the dimples on cheeks and chin, the curve of her lips, the smile that seemed to flutter around her face, the light in her eyes, the grace and swiftness of her movements, the fullness of her voice, even the manner in which she replied – half-crossly, half-kindly – to Veslovsky, who asked permission to ride her cob that he might teach it to lead with the right leg when galloping – everything about her was peculiarly attractive, and she seemed to know it and to be glad of it.
'I imagine...'Dolly began; but at that moment Vasenka Veslovsky, who had got the cob to lead with the right foot, galloped past in his short jacket, bumping heavily on the leathers of the side-saddle.
It is a cob, my favourite...Bring it here, and get me some sugar.
He has an old cob, still very fine, only a little broken-kneed, and that could be bought; I am sure, for a hundred crowns."
He had finished gouging out a cob, and now he fitted a weed stem to it, loaded it with tobacco, and was pressing a coal to the charge and blowing a cloud of fragrant smoke--he was in the full bloom of luxurious contentment.
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?
Grimaud had a stout, short Picard cob, which cost three hundred livres.