cork up
Example Sentences
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A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kwangtung supply line, which the Japanese last week tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Tattie would cork up the tube and conduct Pipette, who had been sitting patiently in the Waiting Room, up the three stairs to the Consulting Room.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
They cork up the snuff in their nostrils with a hollowed-out bit of wood, till the tears run down their cheeks.
From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan
But suppose you was to cork up a bottle, or clap the lid on an empty biscuit-tin, and heave ’em overboard, do you think they’d live through one or t’other?
From The Secret of the Sands The "Water Lily" and her Crew by Collingwood, Harry
