[
UK
/kˈɔːkt/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin
a corked port
How To Use corked In A Sentence
- We'd throw a rope round a tree and the children would dash off along the towpath for a recce while the adults threw together a little light salad and uncorked a local rosé.
- She got washed over a shallow reef and severely corked her thigh.
- A peculiarly subtle expression haunts the lower part, sensual and incredulous, like that of a man tasting good Bordeaux with half a fancy it has been somewhat too long uncorked. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- Fay asked as she corked the tiny little glass bottle of black ash.
- Making a face, Ethan dug into his jacket pockets, producing an astounding array of charms, talismans, herbs, and potions in corked test-tubes.
- All over the world, bottles of red wine are being uncorked and coffee percolators are burbling away pleasantly in anticipation: it must be time for Norah Jones's second album.
- She had prepared a candlelit dinner and uncorked a bottle of imported champagne.
- He trained only lightly on Thursday as he nursed a corked glute muscle sustained last weekend.
- The colt uncorked a devastating far turn run to sweep past the field and win by five lengths, earnings championship honors.
- There was not one undrinkable or corked bottle in the 60 I tasted.