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In the early morning hours in 1959, a small airplane carrying early rock pioneers Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens crashed in a frozen Iowa cornfield, killing all on board.—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026 Her body was found across state lines in an Indiana cornfield, nearly two months later.—Audrey Abrahams, NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026 The blind that Rhoades had set up in his Erie County cornfield was well-camouflaged.—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2026 Include the burning house, hiding in the cornfields, the Testigos de Jehovah.—Hazlitt, 9 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cornfield