kernel

Example Sentences

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The company’s approach is to form cement into tiny balls, each about the size of a kernel of corn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Scenes of Redford and Hoffman taking phone calls and scribbling down notes, or poring over library slips in desperate search of a kernel of a lead, were thrilling.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

Is there any kernel of truth to anything she’s saying?

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

But first they have to get past a Cornhusker team missing its biggest kernel.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

The woman says, “I brought something—” Even through its newspaper wrapping, Marie-Laure knows it is the model house; it feels as if this woman has dropped a molten kernel of memory into her hands.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr