cork up
Example Sentences
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A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kwangtung supply line, which the Japanese last week tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road.
From Time Magazine Archive
I will take the cork out, light the phosphorus, and cork up the jar again.
From The Fairy-Land of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.
But suppose you was to cork up a bottle, or clap the lid on an empty biscuit-tin, and heave ’em overboard, do you think they’d live through one or t’other?
From The Secret of the Sands The "Water Lily" and her Crew by Collingwood, Harry
I have been reading," he said, "about a little machine, or box, that you can talk into and then cork up and send by mail across the ocean to anybody you know there.
From Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences by Stockton, Frank Richard
