Used in a Sentence

cornmeal

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cornmeal.

Editorial note

We’d grind up field corn and eat cornmeal instead of starving to death with plenty of electricity but no food.

Examples15
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cornmeal gathered in one view.

noun

Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.

noun

(archaic, especially before 18th c.) Any cereal grain meal or flour.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cornmeal.

noun

Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.

noun

(archaic, especially before 18th c.) Any cereal grain meal or flour.

Example sentences

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We’d grind up field corn and eat cornmeal instead of starving to death with plenty of electricity but no food.

2

Possibly some of the corn ends up as cornmeal or corn flour.

3

Is extruding cornmeal mixed with water through a die ultra processing?

4

Or for that matter, the English word cornmeal.

5

Field corn can also be made into cornmeal, which we can eat.

6

> Only crazy people put sugar in cornbread or anyone that reads the cornmeal box.

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Corn is edible, and I’d be more than happy to eat cornmeal for years in the event of a global war that stopped food imports/exports.

8

I’d much rather eat cornmeal for years than sugar beets.

9

You'd be amazed what can be done with cornbread and cornbread batter, but you have to make your own from cornmeal, the mixes in the store use flour as a binder.

10

I hate not knowing where things are and spending a fair amount of time googling on my phone in the store to find out if cornmeal == cornstarch == cornflour.

11

I just always assumed we grow excess corn for food security reasons and we turn the excess into ethanol so it doesn’t rot/go to waste, the other options are cornmeal or exporting it.

12

And then it also makes it far more economical to make food products with high fructose corn syrup, corn-fed chicken & beef, cornmeal, and corn starch, all of which are phenomenally unhealthy for you.

Quote examples

1

Didn't Carl Sagan (no stranger to selling books) pretty much stomp von Däniken's "theory" into cornmeal well before the turn of the century?

2

In metric countries, however, you routinely see recipes like "140 g cornmeal" or hear people asking for "500 g meat" in a grocery store.

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Only crazy people put sugar in cornbread: 10" round (iron) skillet 2 eggs 1 cup milk 1/4 cup cooking oil 3/4 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder (not baking soda) 1 cup yellow cornmeal 1 cup unbleached white flour (or 1/2 whole wheat + 1/2 white) Preheat oven to 400 degrees: In a large bowl, beat together the eggs, milk, oil and salt until well blended.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cornmeal in a sentence?

We’d grind up field corn and eat cornmeal instead of starving to death with plenty of electricity but no food.

What does cornmeal mean?

Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.

What part of speech is cornmeal?

cornmeal is commonly used as noun.