How to use "corner" in a sentence

There was a big metal thing about six feet tall and five feet round, sitting in the corner.

Mary Ann Nichols was in 'Frying Pan' pub on the corner of Brick Lane, spending her last pennies on drink

They passed a man and a woman at the corner of Church Passage that led into Mitre Square

In the darkest corner of the square he saw the body of a woman in the light of his lantern

He walked to his right round the corner, where there were two windows of number 13

All I need is a quiet corner somewhere

Every few minutes, he stopped in the shadows of a doorway or at the corner of a street to look back

He looked at the girl out of the corner of his eye

in one corner.

He stood for a moment staring after them as they disappeared round a corner

Thinking no more about it, he wrapped the letters up again, threw them into a corner and went to bed.

Then, in the top corner near the ceiling, Marius saw that there was a triangular hole.

A fire burned in the corner of the room, filling it with blood-red light

'Now, you two must go and keep guard in the street, one by the gate, one at the street corner.'

Thenardier sat on the corner of the table in silence for some moments, swinging his leg and gazing with a fierce satisfaction at the fire

Around the corner, he could see a row of soldiers aiming their guns down the rue de Chanvrerie, waiting for the order to fire.

Valjean, his gun in one hand, pulled Javert behind him over the barricade and into a narrow alley, where the corner of a house hid them from view

Javert walked away slowly and Valjean, waiting for him to turn a corner, fired his gun into the air and returned to the stronghold.

She did not realize that, every evening, Valjean would walk slowly from his house until he reached the corner of the street where she lived

The band in the corner is playing soft classical music.

The lamp in the corner of the room looks like the tall, silent figure of a murderer, and the coat on the back of your door has hands that almost touch you.

"Listen to me," his brother said at a dark table in the corner at the Lake Louise Inn

And they put him behind it, in a deep dark corner where no one could see him and the light disappeared as they put the last bricks in place

And for a while he thought that he would die in the deep dark corner behind the wall

And a strange-looking man in a coat in the corner.

The man in the corner is probably just a normal guy and not some horrible character from one of her thrillers.

Sarah nods and is about to put her headphones back in her ears when she feels someone watching her, and she looks at the corner of the carriage.

She stands up and looks in the corner of the carriage one more time, but it looks like the man is asleep.

"Maybe someone found it in a dusty corner and thought of my little garden..

Gran threw a handful of leaves onto a pile in the corner

In one corner, the woman was taking the yellow hag off her back

Turning a corner, we came to a crossroads and the beginning of a high wall.

We turned the last corner and there was Manderley

There were some letters in the corner - a tall "R" and "de W." It was Rebecca's

His desk occupied one corner; tubes of glue, miniature bottles of enamel in every color, and a variety of model-crafting tools stood in soldierly ranks on one half of the desk, and the other half was bare, waiting for him to begin work

As she was mopping the last corner of the kitchen floor, as she was thinking about how dreary life would be without her friends and her slot machines, she heard a sound in another part of the house

It seemed to be coming from every corner of the house.

A disgusting cluster of maggots clung to the man's left cheek and to the corner of his eye, feeding off him

Danny's collection of paperbacks had been pulled from the bookcase and tossed into every corner

She thought of the man in her nightmare, the man in black whose face had been lumpy with maggots, and the shadows in the corner of her office seemed darker and deeper than they had been a moment ago.

She hurried around the desk, banging her hip against one corner, heading for the wall socket as the printer hummed with the production of more hateful words.

Tina kept a well-stocked bar in one corner of her office for those infrequent occasions when a business associate needed a drink after a long work session

Elliot carried their empty brandy glasses to the bar in the corner and switched on the light above the sink

Over breakfast, he asked her to go with him to the afternoon party at which he was going to corner Judge Kennebeck to ask about the exhumation

When at last she drove away, he watched her car until it turned the corner and disappeared, and when she was gone, he knew why he had not wanted to let her go

Vince, the tall man, said, "We'll use the breakfast area over there in the corner."

The cluster of maggots squirming on his cheek, at the corner of one eye

When Elliot refused to move away from the sink to the breakfast table in the far corner of the big kitchen, Bob, the smaller of the two men, hesitated, then reluctantly took a step toward him.

When Elliot rounded the corner two blocks later, he braked from sixty miles an hour to make the turn

He wheeled around another corner, and then another, trying to disappear from the men in the van long enough to leave them with so many choices of streets to follow that they would have to give up the chase in confusion

Too late, he saw the sign at the fourth intersection - NOT A THROUGH STREET - but they were already around the corner and headed down the narrow dead end, with nothing but a row of ten modest stucco houses on each side.

Finally, he leaned over and kissed the corner of her mouth, then her cheek, her eyes.

He gagged, and a ribbon of foamy saliva unraveled from the corner of his mouth, down his chin

When he smiled, his mouth turned up slightly at the left corner, giving him a vaguely haughty expression, although at the moment he wasn't smiling.

They slipped around the corner of the building and moved stealthily toward the front.

As Elliot was opening the driver's door, he saw movement out of the corner of his eye, and he looked up, already sure of what he would see

A white Ford sedan had just turned the corner, moving slowly

At the corner, he ignored the stop sign and swung the car hard to the left, only tapping the brakes once, severely testing the Chevy's suspension.

"After I turn the next corner, I'll stop and get out

"I'll fade back into the shrubbery and wait for them to come around the corner after us

The Ford had rounded the corner too fast

When they had gone two blocks, he said, "Turn right at the next corner." After two more turns and another three blocks, he said, "Pull it to the curb

Tina leaned across the corner of the table, grabbed Billy's head in her hands, pulled his face to hers, and kissed him

Who were these two people? Why weren't they hiding in a dark corner somewhere? Why weren't they scared witless? Christina Evans was only an ordinary woman

There was a second telephone booth in the corner

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that he was standing behind the door

'He was round the corner at the desk

Then she went round the corner of the house to the study window

He heard their screams and, hurrying round the corner, saw a couple of men trying to pull them out of the little cart which they had been driving, while a third held onto the frightened horse's head

We stood for a moment in terror, then ran through a gate behind us into a garden and hid in a corner until the stars were out.

A fighting- machine stood in the corner of the pit

I shut the door and moved back into the hall and tried to hide myself in the corner

Except in the corner, where a number of birds fought over some dead bodies, there was not a living thing in the pit.

In one corner there was a desk, and at that desk there was a desk, and at that desk there appeared to be a little girl.

We row our boat into a quiet corner on the river

I know a place around the corner here, where you can get some good whisky

We looked in every corner of the boat