cornflakes
noun
a packaged breakfast cereal in the form of small toasted flakes made from corn, for serving cold with milk, sugar, etc.
corn flakes
-
a variation of
cornflakes.
Example Sentences
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The company's founder, Will Keith Kellogg, is widely considered to be the inventor of corn flakes.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
For me, growing up in the Maryland suburbs of Silver Spring and Rockville meant living in a household with ample amounts of corn flakes available at hand.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
Why bother fighting in a place where everyone is sleeping on the same cheap sponge mattresses, and lining up every morning for the same off-brand corn flakes smothered in sugar?
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019
Nurses coax her to eat so that she can recover more quickly but she wants corn flakes, not rice for breakfast.
From Fox News ● Jun. 8, 2019
As I pour a bowl of corn flakes, I count how many times someone in this house apologized to me for flushing while I was in the shower.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
