How To Use Corked In A Sentence
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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.
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She got washed over a shallow reef and severely corked her thigh.
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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
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Fay asked as she corked the tiny little glass bottle of black ash.
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Making a face, Ethan dug into his jacket pockets, producing an astounding array of charms, talismans, herbs, and potions in corked test-tubes.
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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.
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She had prepared a candlelit dinner and uncorked a bottle of imported champagne.
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He trained only lightly on Thursday as he nursed a corked glute muscle sustained last weekend.
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The colt uncorked a devastating far turn run to sweep past the field and win by five lengths, earnings championship honors.
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There was not one undrinkable or corked bottle in the 60 I tasted.
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Then he went to the table, took the rest of his sherry, corked the bottle, and left.
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Although his style won't sell out any stadiums in the US, it was effective, as Juarez could not seem to get uncorked to throw any punches in bunches.
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The latter is covered with a rubber bung that's nice and snug out of the box, but becomes too loose to be of use once you've uncorked it.
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One time, while eating at one of the outlets of a famous Chicago restaurant group, I got a badly corked bottle of Trimbach Riesling.
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It is uncorked spiritual white lightning that startles and electrifies, as opposed to bottled white lightning that dulls the senses.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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There was not one undrinkable or corked bottle in the 60 I tasted.
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The mayor performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony and uncorked a celebratory bottle of champagne at the new office in Hollins Brook Way.
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He uncorked a canteen and drank deeply and freely of the water.
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He was early in life set to labour with an uncle, a tavern-keeper in Clerkenwell, under whom he bottled, corked, and binned wine for more than five years.
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The prop said he had been corked on a nerve.
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PESCA: The Yankees would hang on to win, and the Ranger's champagne would stay corked, un-iced and unchronicled.
Major League Baseball Tracks Memorabilia
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He references unsavory baseball aids used through the years - doctored balls, corked bats, amphetamines - and tries to claim them as precursors to steroid use.
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He gave up eight hits, including a couple of home runs, uncorked one wild pitch, walked two and struck out just one.
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After as short a period as 18 months (the legal minimum for nonvintage Champagne) or three years (the vintage minimum), or as long as 10 years, the bottle is "disgorged": The cap is removed; the yeast is forced out; the wine is topped off with a small "dosage" of wine and sugar (the higher the sugar level, the sweeter the resulting Champagne) and the bottle is finally corked.
Bubble by Bubble
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Our army completely surrounded and corked up the enemy stronghold.
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All over the world, bottles of red wine are being uncorked and coffee percolators are burbling away pleasantly in anticipation.
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Once again back in his room he corked open the bottle before draining a long bitter drink.
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When with the Chicago Cubs, Kingman once uncorked a tremendous throw from left field that was well wide of home plate.
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She had prepared a candlelit dinner and uncorked a bottle of imported champagne.
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We are getting consistent reports of bats being corked and that is something that we will be investigating further.
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Corked off from reality by your earbuds and with the potential to carry a record store's worth of music, it's no surprise that you start getting less picky.
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If you were told you could get away with using a corked bat to hit a game-winning homer in the World Series, would you do it?
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We now know what we all along suspected -- the rajah is a rascal, and we have not only found out where his prahus are hidden, but have them corked up in a bottle.
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
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One of the corked wines would have been my favorite of the evening.
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Scattered across the dirt are the Vulture Mine's remnants: rusted equipment, tumbledown shacks, bunkhouses, corked whiskey bottles, and cracked furniture.
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‘You were awesome,’ Guy told me, smirking as he uncorked the bottle of wine.
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Secondly, having regard to the great swelling and coldness of the limb, we must apply hot bricks round it, and sprinkle them with a decoction of nerval herbs in wine and vinegar, and wrap them in napkins; and to his feet, an earthenware bottle filled with the decoction, corked, and wrapped in cloths.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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The bottles are corked, wired and at that stage, the Champagne is complete.
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Accepting the cup, she deftly uncorked the bottle and proceeded to cautiously shake finely ground, dun colored grains into the water.
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She corked the bottles, putting one away and one on the ground.
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He only corked his calf so he will amaze us once again.
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It is confusing for servers who have some customers drink and some return corked wines.
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The Cats insist he had only corked his right leg in his return to action.
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He then dissolved the glassy residue in dilute hydrochloric acid, boiled it, and left it to stand for several days in a corked flask.
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The paramount reason for the move away from cork is the problem of cork taint (or 'corked' wine).
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He uncorked it, and poured the clear liquid into the flask.
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Asada uncorked a majestic triple axel in the first 20 seconds of her program, high and tight and textbook right, the first by a woman in the Olympic Games since her countrywoman Midori Ito landed one in the long program at the 1992 Albertville Olympics — yet she still didn't come close to winning the short program.
Kim, Asada stand tall in short program
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Steve uncorked bottles of champagne to toast the achievement.
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She was nursing a corked thigh on Wednesday night after a rear-wheel slip nearly derailed her gold medal ride at the Australian track cycling championships.
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He left the field with a corked knee but said the injury was nothing serious.
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On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk.
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Honey should be kept only in stone jars, called Bristol ware, and in a cool and dry situation, but not corked up until a week or two after it has transuded through the sieve,
A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year
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I assume that he means just in case a bottle is corked — not that he and his wife plan to get crocked.
No License, No Worry Here
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Our army completely surrounded and corked up the enemy stronghold.
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Corked glasses of wine are valiantly defended, and the diner is implied to be trying to cheat the restaurant.
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Shrugging, she uncorked the bottle and waved it under Alice's nose.
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He recorked the bottle and shook up the contents.
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The champagne was finally uncorked in August 1981 when a management buy-out saved all the jobs.
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He is dropped for the trip west amidst talk of a corked leg.
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For the record, I have never had a corked screwcap wine.
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a corked port
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Jean-Julien pulled out and uncorked the vial, releasing the pungent odor of bergamot, licorice, and calamus root into the still air—a potent bend-over blend—and carefully tapped a portion of the black powder into the palm of his hand.
Black Dust Mambo
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You better keep your head in your * ss then so that artillery is properly corked!
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When the right occasion comes along and that wine is uncorked, it will be the best, most delicious nectar the lucky partaker has ever experienced.
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The vapor collected in the bottle and when it stopped Xander simply corked the bottle, stood up straight and returned to Jessica who was still standing in the center of the living room watching the scene.
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Along with screwcaps and plastic corks, these glass closures are another solution to the wretched problem of corked wines.
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In an act borne out of frustration at this, I stuck a cinammon stick along with a couple of allspice berries in each of the final four bottles I corked.
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I cleaned the stamp, corked the black oil and went away: they called after me to come in for tea, but I affected not to hear.
TESTIMONIES
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His face motionless, Altobelli reached up and uncorked his left eyeball from its socket, placing it on the table.
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But when we're done, we'll put the driver in the closet along with our collection of corked baseball bats, helium-filled footballs and boxing gloves with horseshoes inside.
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I will have intensive physiotherapy on my corked thigh this week and should be right to train by Friday and that will ensure I play on the weekend.
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Santana had uncorked 57 pitches over his first three innings.
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The issue of limited quantities of natural cork and the problem of corking, when the wine takes on a corked taste, are leading to the increasingly widespread use of silicon corks and screw tops.
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After his 68 on the first day, the wine farmer uncorked another vintage round of six-under par 66 to beat Des Smyth.
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Bacon is sizzling in the pan, scrabbled eggs are on and the champagne is ready to be uncorked.
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But then he uncorked a wild pitch to Tony Lazzeri to allow Earle Combs to score from third base with the Series-ending run.
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It was a high-grade bellow, the first one he'd uncorked in months.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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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 rose.
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Once you have smelled and tasted a corked wine, it becomes a fairly easy problem to recognize.
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Poor cork storage conditions can dramatically increase the incidence of corked wines.
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He quickly corked the bottle, then set it on top of the slightly ajar door as a trap for any who would dare disturb it.
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When a cork is contaminated with TCA it makes the wine that comes into contact with it stink and taste bad and we say the wine is corked or corky.
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He remained standing while he uncorked a bottle of wine.
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Our army completely surrounded and corked up the enemy stronghold.
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They should be labelled allopathic purgatives and kept tightly corked.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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Despite my reservations, I uncorked the squat bottle and poured a glass of the golden liquid - handcrafted by a team of only three and aged for 10 years.
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The whole voice mail was clearly a product of the kind of uncorked rage that always ends in remorse and sorrow, but it was not entirely witless.
The Passion of Alec Baldwin
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Around the ground, pine trees offer shade under which bottles are uncorked and picnic baskets unloaded.
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In this blog post about the difference between corked wine and screw-top wine, Levitt’s wife, Jeannette, is revealed to be not only a drinker but a cork snob:
2007 November - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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He planted his sliding step and uncorked the most devastating ball of any player of his time.
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After the third week all mines were left covered until the larvae pupated, at which time the leaves were picked and placed in corked glass tubes, and reared in an outside insectary.
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He removed the mixtures and potions from his bag and uncorked the bottles.
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Winged elm, also called corked elm or wahoo elm, can be distinguished from other elms by the woody, wing-like growths along the branchlets.
