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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An acorn is tiny compared to its parent, but a kiwi lays an egg a quarter her own weight.
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Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn .
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Do you think the sky is falling when an acorn falls?
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Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns.
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May acorns fall from an oak.
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The acorns should be picked from trees, not the ground.
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The absurd idea, he wrote, that a work of art grows from nothing into something, from acorn into oak.
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The vessel was probably used to store acorns or water, Ver Planck said.