How to use cork in a sentence

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More sentences with cork

• As I opened the champagne bottle, the cork was propelled roofward.From the entry roofward
• Emma's bridge club had a romping good laugh about the champagne cork lodging in Betty's hair.From the entry romping good
• Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.From the entry pop
• The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.From the entry bob
• He eased the cork from the bottle.From the entry ease
• Cork taint is one of the most recognizable wine faults.From the entry fault
• He was so loud I told him to cork it.From the entry cork it
• Here's a bottle to cork that up in.From the entry cork up
• It's a done deal — he already sold me the prize wine bottle from his collection, and I already popped the cork.From the entry done deal
• Corks remain prevalent, but nowadays the wine industry also offers plenty of screw caps, too, for occasions that warrant them or customers who prefer them.From the entry screw cap
• The cork oak where Phillip wanted his ashes spread had burned down in the last fire.2025 January 19, Eli Saslow, Erin Schaff, “They Built a Home to Fend Off California Wildfires. But Will They Stay?”, in The New York…. From the entry moonscape
• The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it.2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People. From the entry lip
• Cantor starts blacking up, right then and there, painting his face with a burnt piece of cork.2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry black up
• Everything I’ve read says the shooter was a white supremacist who popped his cork.2015 July 2, Tom Corrigan, “Gun ownership debate rages on for the racists, crazies”, in Issaquah Press, retrieved 05 Jul 2015. From the entry pop one's cork
• I put the cork in the bottle, and this time, I approached sobriety differently.2013, Robert C. Kelly, A Boy Walks Into a Bar, page 122. From the entry bottom-line
• If tenants want uncovered floors, then let them install cork underflooring.2009 August 20, “Be Quiet Up There!”, in New York Times. From the entry underflooring
• The way they all quietly cheered Toby's burps, as if each were a champagne cork popping!2006, Emma Neale, Relative Strangers, Random House New Zealand, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry nappy check
• The point of the screw pierced the red wax and entered the cork.1910, J[ohn] J[oy] Bell, “His Justice”, in Wullie McWattie’s Master, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: Fleming H[ewitt] Revell Company…. From the entry cloop
• It was a solemn moment when the cork came out with a cloop.1910, J[ohn] J[oy] Bell, “His Justice”, in Wullie McWattie’s Master, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: Fleming H[ewitt] Revell Company…. From the entry cloop
• He applied grease paint and burnt cork to his face in profusion.1903 June 7, “Blood Poisoned by ‘Make-up.’ […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry grease paint
• Popping down a cork coaster, the bartender delivered Alan's next drink and plucked the empties and undrinkables as the music changed.2018, Craig Hallam, Old Haunts. From the entry undrinkable
• Same cork floor, same avocado bathroom set.2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry avocado
• Reubens, as a rock concert promoter, gets to pop his cork, spewing expletives with a patently cathartic force.2007 May 20, Ruth La Ferla, “The Once and Future Pee-wee”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Jul 2015. From the entry pop one's cork
• He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red.2005, Jeffrey P. Landry, Temptation Mango. From the entry red
• A twist of ribbon, a wine cork, a bunch of diplomats' calling cards held together with a bulldog clip.2001, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], The Constant Gardener, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN; republished New…. From the entry bulldog clip
• Modern zōri are cork soled with leather, plastic, or cloth.1999, Gilles Poitras, The Anime Companion: What’s Japanese in Japanese Animation?, Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry zōri
• French champagne producers have reportedly designed a popless cork.1995, The Australian Grapegrower & Winemaker. From the entry popless
• Tensely, Michael removed pieces of cork from a misopened bottle.1986, Janet Hobhouse, November, page 59. From the entry misopen
• There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40. From the entry fish

Meaning of cork

1. noun The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. noun The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
3. noun A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.

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Questions about cork in a sentence

How do you use cork in a sentence?

Cork is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.”

What is a short sentence with cork?

“The vicious tackle corked his leg.”

What does cork mean?

Cork means the dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.