cob
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“He had a piece of space with wet cement so he just put the corn cob in there. And I just love the kind of freedom to make the piece. Anything can go in there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
That includes adobe and cob, a material made from clay, sand and straw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Will it be from eating corn on the cob?
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024
Emulsified elote batter is molded to resemble corn on the cob.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024
We ate hot dogs and hamburgers and corn on the cob and strawberries.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
The cobs of corn she's harvesting are so abundant and the plants so tall, she's almost lost in a sea of maize.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
I learned that the distillery makes its bourbon from local Jimmy Red corn, which was two cobs away from extinction before High Wire rescued it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Above, a large skylight is adorned with hundreds of suspended corn cobs, their illuminated forms offering one of the few sources of light in the dark and moody, monochromatic space.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024
Using this figure, Kirkby went back to the ancient cobs excavated from Tehuacan Valley and tried to estimate how much grain per acre they would have yielded.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
