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 tell ye there's a heap o' perfumes 'raound that ye can't buy at a flower-store and cork up in a bottle.
From The Under Dog by Francis Hopkinson Smith
A fleet of war-ships proposing to blockade or supervise the port of Boston, may at the same time extend its operations so as to cork up the Sound.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
Put in clear water and plug or cork up the hole.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
