CONE in a Sentence

Learn CONE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for CONE, such as:

1. The kids were lobbing pine cones into the neighbor's yard.
2. We truncate the top of a cone in a plane parallel to its base is a circle.
3. He threw a pine cone at a jovial squirrel, and he ran with chattering fear.
4. It was raised on cones of grey stone at the corners to protect it from rats and damp.
5. The soldiers, of whom there are the most, form the lower section of the cone and its base.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cone
 n.  a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
Classic Sentence:
1  He threw a pine cone at a jovial squirrel, and he ran with chattering fear.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  Here, with its sheaf sliced in four, exposing a white cone, Giles offered his wife a banana.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
3  The soldiers, of whom there are the most, form the lower section of the cone and its base.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
4  Beth was sorting the cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty things with them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
5  "I've made such quantities it would be hard to choose which I'd have," said Laurie, lying flat and throwing cones at the squirrel who had betrayed him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
6  The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
7  Here the snow was so pure that the tiny tracks of wood-animals had left on it intricate lace-like patterns, and the bluish cones caught in its surface stood out like ornaments of bronze.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
9  It was raised on cones of grey stone at the corners to protect it from rats and damp.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
Example Sentence:
1  We truncate the top of a cone in a plane parallel to its base is a circle.
2  If the shining cone of Kilimanjaro melts, the world will have lost something of great beauty.
3  The kids were lobbing pine cones into the neighbor's yard.