Crossword clues for cornering
cornering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corner \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cornered (-n?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cornering.]
To drive into a corner.
To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A piece of decorative work forming a corner. 2 The act by which somebody is cornered. vb. (present participle of corner English)
Usage examples of "cornering".
This keeps the chassis set and maintains the downforce or tire patch while I aim for the apex area and increases the tire patch for cornering.
Sir Geoffrey on a day, he asked, half-jokingly, if the denizens of Whyffler Hall had the intent of cornering the chamberpot market for all of England.
But it's a ballsy fight-scene up there on the stage having been intricately choreographed by an Oriental guy Himself rented from some commercial studio and put up in the HmH, who ate like a bird and smiled very politely all the time and didn't have even a word to say to anybody, it seemed, except Avril, to whom the Oriental choreographer had cottoned right off balletic and full of compelling little cornerings and near-misses and reversals, and the theater's audience is rapt and clearly entertained to the gills, because they keep spontaneously applauding, as much maybe for the film's play's choreography as anything else which would make it more like spontaneously meta-applauding, Hal supposes because the whole fight-scene has to be ingeniously choreographed so that both combatants have their respectively scaly and cream-complected backs155 to the audience, for obvious reasons .
Small wonder that Cressler laughed at the thought of cornering wheat, and even now as Jadwin crossed Jackson Street, on his way to his broker's office on the lower floor of the Board of Trade Building, he noted the ebb and flow that issued from its doors, and remembered the huge river of wheat that rolled through this place from the farms of Iowa and ranches of Dakota to the mills and bakeshops of Europe.
The sculptured body kit improved the car's drag coefficient significantly, while the lowered and stiffened suspension, allied to a set of Metzler ultra-high performance tires, gave the car superior handling and cornering capabilities.
Fax plowed in, trying to turn his weight and mass to advantage against the lighter, faster man by cornering him between raised platform and wall.
Josh and Margo and Kate, cornering her at Pretenses and all but presenting her with a fait accompli.
When he had killed off all he could, his policy was to combine with those he could not kill, and convert their mutual warfare into a warfare upon the public at large by cornering the market, as I believe you used to call it, and putting up prices to the highest point people would stand before going without the goods.