Sentence examples for cork up from inspiring English sources

"cork up" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used as a verb phrase to mean to close or seal tightly with a cork, or to stop or restrain something. Example 1: The winemaker carefully corked up each bottle of wine to ensure its freshness. Example 2: She couldn't wait to cork up her emotions and put on a brave face for her family. Example 3: The politician tried to cork up the scandal by denying any involvement. Example 4: The construction workers corked up the leak in the pipe before it caused any more damage.

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Viewing the rough surgeries of those who were rarely salvage-able, obliged Alcott, while on duty, to "cork up" her feelings.

Hate is that genie in the bottle - hard to lure back and cork up again once you have allowed it to escape.

Stand the cork up on one of its sides so that it is taller than it is wide, and use a sharp knife to slice it into two equal halves.

Hopefully the film will be out in the summer, or whenever someone shoots Osama bin Laden and shoves a piece of cork up his ass.

Keep up with her on Twitter.

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Think of a building like a cork in water; the bigger the waves, the more the cork will bob up and down.

Upon slicing, corking up to the skin surface.

He felt "corked up, as if in a bottle," his wife said.

You can indeed perform "Othello" -- or mimic a singing group -- without corking up: it's called acting.

But such shows were also hugely popular with black people, who were soon producing their own versions, in which they, too, corked up and put on fuzzy wigs.

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