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How to use corkscrew in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Corkscrew means an implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm. Example: “I opened the wine with a corkscrew.”

Examples of corkscrew by meaning

nounAn implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a...

  • I opened the wine with a corkscrew.
  • A corkscrew is designed so that when it is turned it creates effectively a helical undulation pushing it into the cork, whereas rotation in the opposite sense pulls it out.1999, James Lighthill, “Biofluiddynamics: A Survey”, in Contemporary Mathematics, volume 141, page 11
  • A two-prong or ah-so corkscrew with sheath.2006, Costas Katsigris, Chris Thomas, The Bar and Beverage Book, 4th edition, page 152

nounA type of inversion used in roller coasters.

  • A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward.1987 September, Tim Cole, “Killer Coasters”, in Popular Mechanics, page 56

verbTo wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.

  • The street corkscrewed endlessly.1916, John Buchan, chapter 10, in Greenmantle
  • Far off to starboard an Atlantic liner, all lights blazing, came towards us, corkscrewing with a motion which must have left the passengers unhappy.1960, Lobsang Rampa, chapter 5, in The Rampa Story

verbTo cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.

  • Rusty corkscrewed the plane back down again, but instead of mashing the throttles to the wall, he pulled them to idle.2006, Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four, page 155
  • Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry.2007, Mike Monahan, Barracuda, page 107

verbTo extract information or consent from someone.

  • Yes, I believe you did after it was corkscrewed out of you, but I got the impression at the outset that you were, just as willing to let it stand there.1922, James Thomas Heflin, Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, page 460

More sentences with corkscrew

  • The corkscrew pasta holds the cheese sauce better, but all I had in the cupboard was bowtie pasta.From the entry bowtie
  • Lacking a corkscrew, he broke the bottle open.From the entry break open
  • If you screw up unscrew the corkscrew and rescrew to unscrew what you have screwed up.1994, Carole Marsh, Arkansas "Crinkum-Crankum", Carole Marsh Books, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry rescrew
  • He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 61. From the entry unbend
  • They snow the shop floor blind, anklefuls, silencing footfall, corkscrewing in blocks of sun — how light and illiterate with glee they settle.2001, Indiana Review - Volume 23, page 103. From the entry ankleful
  • So far we had done nothing except file past a tool-dump, where men had collected picks, shovels, coils of wire and corkscrew stakes.1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 337 (Faber…. From the entry corkscrew stake
  • Chaika described the old approach, before Chechnya’s airport was sacked: the plane would circle high over Grozny, and then descend in a harrowing corkscrew, hoping to dodge groundfire.2007 September 11, C.J. Chivers, “Nonstop to Chechnya: As War Ebbs, Flights Return”, in New York Times. From the entry groundfire
  • We are quite sure in which features all the members of a certain species agree, notwithstanding possible individual characteristics, say a monogram on one penknife, or a corkscrew in another.1948, G. Rabel, Discovery. From the entry penknife

Meaning of corkscrew

  1. noun An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
  2. noun The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
  3. noun A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.

Full definition of corkscrew

Questions about corkscrew in a sentence

How do you use corkscrew in a sentence?
Corkscrew is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “I opened the wine with a corkscrew.”
What is a short sentence with corkscrew?
“The street corkscrewed endlessly.”
What does corkscrew mean?
Corkscrew means an implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.

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