cork
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At age 7, he started playing with a flying toy made of cork, bamboo and rubber bands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The facility plans to continue making other types of screw caps, capsule and Diam cork closures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
A cork is when a spin is combined with a flip, resulting in an 'off-axis' direction of travel resembling a corkscrew.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
The two countries constitute a geographical cork on Central Asia’s westward trade routes and pipelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
I gave him his box of mementos and watched as he fingered each one: the Wiggle King fishing lure, the silver dollar, the cork, little Eva’s nesting doll, and the skeleton key.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Pulling out corks at 30,000 feet is part of the job for Franks, who develops wines to serve on flights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Champagne corks popping throughout 23-year-old Fery's remarkable three-set win over ninth seed Flavio Cobolli - including one which the Italian complained put him off his service motion - proved fitting.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Hollywood stars embraced and champagne corks popped at this year's Oscars nominee lunch, the glamorous pre-show gathering that was canceled amid last year's devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
There was no champagne, or popping of corks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024
There was a board over the spring and I lifted it and, knocking the corks firmly into the bottles, lowered them down into the water.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
When the priceless liquid is poured, the group is horrified by the odor: The wine is corked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
There are various types of flips that have unique names that don't spell out exactly what the trick contains - including wildcat, tamedog, backflip, frontflip, rodeo, backside rodeo and corked spin.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
PCC has great customer service; I purchased this Bordeaux at its Green Lake branch and was able to return the corked bottle at its Central District branch, no questions asked.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
A chemical compound in the cork can cause a corked wine to taste musty or moldy, like wet cardboard.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
Wordless, his uncle corked the waterskin, untied his horse, and mounted.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
A corking Nancy Drew tale set in 1960s Galicia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
“It’s always been part of the game,” he said, “just like hitters have always been corking their bats.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
The warts on their outside are called "corking," as horticulturalist Jessica Walliser said on WNYC.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
The MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross overlooking the river gives James Bond some exciting Thames moments in his corking speedboat chase at the beginning of The World Is Not Enough.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2020
"Something the patronne's daughter said. A corking row. She was rather splendid, you know. Showed her yellow card and demanded the patronne's daughter's too. I say it was a row."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
