Corner meaning in English

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Definition

a corner: an angle, a point where two lines meet noun
I hurt myself on the corner of the table. It's very sharp!
My house is located on the corner of this street. It's where Main Street meets Grovener Road.
to corner (someone, a market): to monopolize, to control, to block (someone, a market) verb

Examples

  • "Hey, you in the corner, we haven't heard from you in a while."
  • "You've missed some trash over in that corner."
  • "Donna will be working Fridays from the corner office across from the coffee machine."
  • "Susie : Then, when I return from lunch, he's in the corner of my office, hiding behind the ficus, just staring at me."
  • "There is a building with a lot of graffiti, an automobile with no tires, and a small grocery store on the corner."
  • "And somewhere over there in the corner is Horatio Oléré, master perfumer and minority shareholder."
  • "On the corner is a banker with a motorcar, the little children laugh at him behind his back."
  • "Also, I know that Philip is very attracted to the woman in the corner."
  • "And in the leopard-skin corner, all the way from the Amazon, Horatio "the anaconda" Oléré!"
  • "I saw the cleaning man killing mice with his bare hands, and stacking them up in a pile in the corner."
  • "Wooden beams and bookshelves... There's a roaring fire in the corner... And over there's the games area, with a dartboard and a pool table."
  • "And in the leopard-skin corner, all the way from the Amazon, Horatio "The Anaconda" Oléré!"
  • "In the pink corner, all the way from Oxford, England, Brian "the butcher" Jones!"
  • "In the pink corner, all the way from Oxford, England, Brian "The Butcher" Jones!"

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