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Get to know Cornered better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like trapped or treed.

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Cornered in a sentence

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Cornered | Corner | Corners | Cornering

Cornered meaning

  1. Having corners.
  2. Of a person or animal, forced into a difficult or inescapable situation.

Synonyms of Cornered

at bay trapped treed unfree

Related words

Other words often associated with Cornered or its synonyms:

confined jailed indentured bound imprisoned articled entangled captive apprenticed

Using Cornered

  • The main meaning on this page is: Having corners. | Of a person or animal, forced into a difficult or inescapable situation.
  • Useful related words include: at bay, trapped, treed, unfree.
  • In the example corpus, cornered often appears in combinations such as: cornered the, cornered by, cornered and.

Context around Cornered

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

ultimately 1× effectively 1× market 1× comments 1× eileen 1× itself 1× dominik 1×

Often after:

family 1× army 1× off 1× victor 1× lee 1×

Sentence patterns with Cornered

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

authorities ultimately cornered the craft 1× because it cornered the market 1× d been cornered into defeat 1× dominik cornered lee only 1× finding itself cornered in its 1× found and cornered me after 1× high a cornered army might 1× juvenile was cornered and seen 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to prosecutors 1× alex de vries 1× and now since 1× as they realized 1× authorities ultimately cornered 1× but if internal 1×

Common sentence endings:

a fait accompli 1× a leg lock 1× ai specialized servers 1× all cornered off 1× and a half 1× been avoiding it 1×

Words around Cornered

Just before it in the word index:

cornercap 8 cornerbrook 2 cornerbacks 99 cornerback 688 corner 6.360 cornelly 3

Just after it in the word index:

cornering 32 cornerman 2 corners 1.158 cornershop 4 cornerspring 2 cornerstone 509

Similar in corpus frequency:

adebayo 166 advisories 166 aegis 166 afd 166 amplification 166 analogue 166

Corpus analysis for Cornered

  • In this selection, "cornered" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, ultimately, effectively, market, family, army and off stand out and add context to how "cornered" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include authorities ultimately cornered the craft and because it cornered the market. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "cornered" sits close to words such as adebayo, advisories and aegis, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with cornered

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

During this incident, she was effectively cornered. (7 words)

Everything is still closed now, all cornered off. (8 words)

Authorities ultimately cornered the craft in a coastal river mouth. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: When I was 15 (currently I'm 48) a group of my fellow students found and cornered me after school, soaked me in gasoline and menaced me with matches and lighters for almost an hour and a half. (42 words)

What the NBA should do is provide its players with the same blueprint it uses for international growth, because it cornered the market on unfettered expansion years ago while also managing to keep its association with unsavories low-key. (39 words)

Alex De Vries, a researcher who runs the Digiconomist website, modeled the electricity used by AI alone by focusing on sales projections from the U.S. firm Nvidia, which has cornered the market in AI-specialized servers. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

According to prosecutors, the cornered family man devised a desperate plot to divert attention — which included his own suicide.

Authorities ultimately cornered the craft in a coastal river mouth.

But if internal and external pushback — especially from India — is high, a cornered army might feel the need to hold on to power and offer itself as a fait accompli.

During this incident, she was effectively cornered.

Everything is still closed now, all cornered off.

If having guts is a New York thing I dont think we have that market cornered.

In another episode of the podcast, Bush and Burton spoke about how they were cornered by their boss to do a photoshoot for Maxim to keep exploiting the sexualization of their characters.

In a tearful Senate address earlier, independent senator Lidia Thorpe said she had been subjected to “sexual comments”, cornered in a stairwell, “inappropriately touched” and “propositioned” by “powerful men”.

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Later, Eileen cornered Victor to complain about Anna and Valentin’s deaths.

On Wednesday, She cornered the Yogi Government in Uttar Pradesh and the Union Government saying that the demand for caste based census is picking up everywhere but the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has been avoiding it.

Reminiscent of Paris's inflexible position during the negotiations, France is finding itself cornered in its opposition to the UK's stance on electric vehicles.

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: When I was 15 (currently I'm 48) a group of my fellow students found and cornered me after school, soaked me in gasoline and menaced me with matches and lighters for almost an hour and a half.

What the NBA should do is provide its players with the same blueprint it uses for international growth, because it cornered the market on unfettered expansion years ago while also managing to keep its association with unsavories low-key.

When it comes to low-priced power supplies, Thermaltake has pretty much cornered the market.

Alex De Vries, a researcher who runs the Digiconomist website, modeled the electricity used by AI alone by focusing on sales projections from the U.S. firm Nvidia, which has cornered the market in AI-specialized servers.

And now, since you’ve cornered me, I don’t know why I’m not supposed to say this.

As they realized that they’d been cornered into defeat, the men began to panic, and several hundred escaped.

Dominik cornered Lee, only for Lee to tackle him down and put him in a leg lock.

Dot may be “the tiger” when cornered, but her new life with the docile Wayne has reinforced the value of kindness and decency.

Following a pursuit, the juvenile was cornered and seen discarding an item over a fence.

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Common combinations with cornered

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "cornered" in a sentence?
An example: "According to prosecutors, the cornered family man devised a desperate plot to divert attention — which included his own suicide." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "cornered" from authentic English texts.
What does "cornered" mean?
Cornered means: Having corners.
What are synonyms of "cornered"?
Common synonyms of "cornered" include: at bay, trapped, treed, unfree.
How many example sentences with "cornered" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "cornered", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.