Sentence examples similar to cork jacket from inspiring English sources

Lifeboats were wired or glued to the deck with layers of paint, cork in the life jackets had turned to dust with age and fire hoses broke under water pressure.

The dust jacket of the book, "Tommy the Cork: Washington's Ultimate Insider From Roosevelt to Reagan," states cryptically that Mr. McKean "is currently the chief of staff to a member of the United States Senate".

We crashed shop openings on the King's Road or private views around Cork Street, me in my Gas Board anorak or my dad's outsized corduroy jacket, NHS bins and tangled hair.

The life jacket had deteriorated canvas and "what is thought to be six rectangular cork blocks ... clearly visible".

Some of the more notable ones include China's Gao Dekang, who is one of the world's biggest makers of down jackets and vests; Portugal's Americo Amorim, who turned his grandfather's small cork operation into the world's largest; and Brazil's Eike Batista, who built and lost a gold mining fortune, before hitting it big in iron ore.

If you make a jacket, the best way to do it is to cut the ribbon or cloth to the size of the cork, leaving your "buttons" in the middle.

Ah cork!

Mrs. Cork apologizes.

A CHAMPAGNE cork popped.

My cork floors!

He lets cork pop.