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
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a variation of
cornflakes.
Example Sentences
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Nestle and Sutherland suggest that we don’t have to throw out the corn flakes with the corn syrup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The company's founder, Will Keith Kellogg, is widely considered to be the inventor of corn flakes.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
Imagine a world in which supermarket shelves were void of corn-based products like corn flakes and polenta, while grains like rice and barley were pricier and the selection smaller.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2021
Imagine trying to market breakfast cereal without a cheap plastic bag to hold corn flakes or wheat bran.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
Slowly, she enunciated the new words I was to repeat: laundromat, corn flakes, subway, snow.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
