cork up
Example Sentences
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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
A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Tattie would cork up the tube and conduct Pipette, who had been sitting patiently in the Waiting Room, up the three stairs to the Consulting Room.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
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 Smith, Francis Hopkinson
"Oh, Peter! dear Lord Peter! cork up your men again!" they all cried.
From Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk by Pyle, Howard
