cork

Example Sentences

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There were several champagne bottles in the room, I suppose for the refreshment of Morton—and as I entered the room a cork popped with a dreadful noise, and I made for the door terrified.

From Literature

Keeping what few wits he still had left about him, Duane flipped the cork off the flask and flung the contents in the direction of the voice just as C.C. had instructed him to do.

From Literature

A cork is when a spin is combined with a flip, resulting in an 'off-axis' direction of travel resembling a corkscrew.

From BBC

Maybe it’s the way the planet ignores these sports for three years and 50 weeks before comically leaning in like we’re all Ph.D.s in lutzes and double cork 1080s.

From The Wall Street Journal

But she fell on a cab double cork 1080, which she had stomped in her first two runs.

From Los Angeles Times