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"Cork" in a Sentence (26 examples)
The champagne cork popped out.
The cork would not come out.
This cork will not come out.
Alex seemed to learn nouns such as "paper," "key" and "cork," and color names such as "red," "green" and "yellow."
It was impossible to pull out the cork.
Tom put the cork back into the wine bottle.
Tom pulled the cork out of the bottle.
The easy and practical "wine cork" is used to "reseal" a wine bottle by sucking out air from the bottle and creating a vacuum.
I believe there's a little cork in that wine.
This cork refuses to come out.
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I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
Because cork is porous, it expands and contracts with changes in humidity.
Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.
He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
Apparently I used to have some good power even though I was little, but the team we were playing against thought I had corked the bat. I kid you not! They paid $200 to have the bat popped off to prove they were right.
The vicious tackle corked his leg.
Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, a corked leg and so on.
As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh. ‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
“I′m okay. I must have corked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I′ll be fine.”
2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191, Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
I corked my thigh late in the game, which we won, and came off.
Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.
But its soon apparent that there are more boats than fish—at least for the moment. We all drift quietly, keeping an eye out for other boats and other nets. Corking another guy's net is a screaming—bastard offense.
You're pissed if someone sets too close to you and especially if he sets his net right along yours, "corking" you and intercepting the fish that seem headed to your own net. I was close to this guy's outside net, but definitely not corking him.
[…] corking the streets is a challenge to capitalist ideologies, like skateboarding in parking lots and walkways […]
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