cork

Wristwatches seem “to pause once brought inside, as if the threshold held a cork in the bottle of time.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Fans' anticipation before the game was like a champagne bottle about to pop its cork.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

One might even stop to see a factory of cork wine-stoppers in action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

When Farahanipour heard about Khamenei’s death, he popped the cork from a champagne bottle and celebrated “the happiest moment of my life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2026

The Basque wagged a forefinger at him and handed the bottle back, slapping in the cork with the palm of his hand.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

For now, champagne corks ought to be popping in Islamabad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Hollywood stars embraced and champagne corks popped at this year's Oscars nominee lunch, the glamorous pre-show gathering that was canceled amid last year's devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

But there will not be any champagne corks popping in the Home Office.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

There was no champagne, or popping of corks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024

Jinx wiggled one of the corks out of a jug.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

When the priceless liquid is poured, the group is horrified by the odor: The wine is corked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

There are various types of flips that have unique names that don't spell out exactly what the trick contains - including wildcat, tamedog, backflip, frontflip, rodeo, backside rodeo and corked spin.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

PCC has great customer service; I purchased this Bordeaux at its Green Lake branch and was able to return the corked bottle at its Central District branch, no questions asked.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

But Philippe Faure-Brac, the head of the French union of sommeliers, said that anosmia made it harder to work with chefs on new or more subtle pairings; worse, its victims cannot detect corked wines.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2021

Alys placed the knife carefully beside the corked containers of herbal infusions.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

“It’s always been part of the game,” he said, “just like hitters have always been corking their bats.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

The warts on their outside are called "corking," as horticulturalist Jessica Walliser said on WNYC.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022

The MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross overlooking the river gives James Bond some exciting Thames moments in his corking speedboat chase at the beginning of The World Is Not Enough.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2020

There was corking the bat, spitballs, grease balls, Vaseline balls, baseball tampering, steroids, gambling and more that don’t come to mind right now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2020

Tirelessly the woman marched to and fro, corking and uncorking herself, singing and falling silent, and pegging out more diapers, and more and yet more.

From "1984" by George Orwell