corked up
Example Sentences
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It does feel a bit more corked up in stock form compared to the others, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers up ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes," I says, "it's keepin' 'em all corked up tight on the insides of us w'ich meks the burden bear down so heavy....
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
Through the operation of the British fleet, later augmented by an American war fleet, the German ships have been corked up in their home ports and chased from the seas.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly
These bolts were driven outside, and obturators wadded with indiarubber corked up the hole that let them through.
From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules
