How to Use field corn in a Sentence

field corn

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  • The hills are thick with field corn, much of it an eye-popping 10 feet high.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Each year, the farm plants acres of field corn then plows down winding paths to form a pattern and a puzzle.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Most of the corn in the United States is field corn—around 99 percent—but only seed corn is detasseled.
    — Julian Epp, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The soybeans are being harvested now and field corn will soon follow.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Hemmed in by rows of DeKalb field corn, the field affects an old-timey appearance, with faux wood scrims pasted onto the outfield’s padded walls.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The sweet corn huitlacoche tastes sweeter than the usual huitlacoche that grows on field corn, which tends to have an earthy flavor.
    — Jordan Nutting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Historically in the Levant, field corn was grown then dried and made into a coarse flour that was used to make breads called karadeesh.
    — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Planting for sweet corn is a little different than commercial field corn or popcorn.
    — Nyssa Kruse, Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2019
  • The end of popcorn maturation will also be late, potentially up against an early frost like field corn.
    — Nyssa Kruse, Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2019
  • Unlike field corn varieties, which are harvested when the kernels are dry and mature (the dent stage), sweet corn is picked when the kernels are still tender (the milk stage) and prepared and eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain.
    — Cassie Armstrong, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 June 2018
  • Kevin Costner introduced it, chirping crickets contributed to the soundtrack and the Sox nearly blew the game in the ninth inning before winning on Tim Anderson’s walk-off home run into the right-field corn.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Seasonal Recipes Native Americans made succotash from field corn and wild beans.
    — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
  • Modern corn is actually a tall annual grass, and all kinds, including ornamental corn, popcorn, field corn and sweet corn, are varieties of a single species: maize.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021

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