corking

How To Use corking In A Sentence

• Up until this morning, this was - as I am sure you will agree - a corking idea.
• The rules against corking bats, applying foreign substances to the ball, and so forth are cheats that either don’t work, or require a fair amount of skill to execute (a spitter is not an easy pitch to throw). Matthew Yglesias » PEDs
• My conclusion was that no device worked better than simply recorking the bottle and standing it on the kitchen counter (my flat is seldom warmer than 65 degrees).
• Those mitigating circumstances, however, That doesn't mean, however, that Microsoft hasn't produced some corkingly bad adverts in its history. Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland 
• He caught me with a corking right upper cut - I didn't know whether I was in Manchester or Las Vegas for a split second.
• 'corking' -- well, it means that a person is all right, don't you know? Fernley House
• I try to imagine her uncorking a bottle of wine, picking a stone out of her shoe and downloading a PowerPoint presentation in one easy movement.
• As the world's vintners move away from natural cork -- which some claim is responsible for "corking" spoilage of up to four percent of all wine -- to synthetic stoppers, animal conservationists are sounding alarm bells about the future of the endangered species that thrive in cork orchards. Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives
• Whether it's pitchers doctoring baseballs, batters corking bats or electricians creating an eye in the sky cheating system, historically, individuals and teams sometimes do whatever is necessary to gain an edge.