cork
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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
Common insulation materials include fibreglass, non-combustible mineral wool, foam boards and natural fibre such as wood or cork.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
But she fell on a cab double cork 1080, which she had stomped in her first two runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
One of the most important tricks for Mastro to land will be the double cork 1080, which involves two midair flips and 1080 degrees of rotation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The sky instantly turns from unrelenting day to an end-of-time kind of twilight as the ship pitches and rolls like a cork.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Makers of corks, capsules and bottles have been hit because overall U.S. wine volume has continued to decline, McMillan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Pulling out corks at 30,000 feet is part of the job for Franks, who develops wines to serve on flights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
As the champagne corks popped around him, the five-time major champion was already speaking about how he believed finally landing the Masters would "free" him up for further success.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 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
They get in the big pool and float around like a bunch a fishing corks.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
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
Among the artefacts discovered were are a gunpowder barrel, swivel guns, a bottle of corked rum and woodworking tools.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022
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
I corked the bottle and covered the cork with a piece of plastic.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
“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
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
Andy Murray opened this set, and dammit, he’s going to close it, again teeing up his big brother for a volley with a corking first serve.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2015
They were, he said unambiguously, “the finest I ever saw seated in a shell. And I’ve seen some corking boatloads.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
