corn
noun
a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
was corning
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past progressiveof corn.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Treasury was corning to the banks for billions more to finance the budget deficit.
From Time Magazine Archive
It should be an example to all of us because . . . she was corning to help us .
From Time Magazine Archive
Faith hardly knew what she was corning to till she reached the brink.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner
So at last, with much difficulty, the ragged rout were ejected; the Peak of Teneriffe going last, a pent storm on his brow; and muttering about some black time that was corning.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Esther did not talk of it, rarely asked a question; nevertheless she heard enough now and then to make her sure what was corning.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
