cob

Example Sentences

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“I needed to know specific details about proper hot-pepper husbandry,” says Caruso, who lives in Cos Cob, Conn. “She would come back with everything I needed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Surely it must have been one of those fake Twitter accounts that crop up at times like this, authored by someone named Cob Bondotta.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Some residents and volunteers built small homes with straw and mud, called cob, in a section of the camp they called Cob on Wood.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2023

‘SHUCKED’ When the crop starts to fail in the small town of Cob County, an expert “corn doctor” arrives to help, but is he really a huckster?

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Cob and the others exchanged shaky smiles, like boys spooked by a ghost story.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss