corked up
Example Sentences
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It does feel a bit more corked up in stock form compared to the others, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers up ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
And an impassioned moment arrested in full flow, stopped short, corked up, for want of a paltry rhyme!
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
The absence of a sympathetic, compatriotic, intelligent spirit, like yours, is my greatest deprivation here, and everything is corked up.'
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
One of the waiters of the hotel said, that always after a burster they found dust inside of bottles of mineral water which had been tightly corked up to the time of opening.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Thomas Wallace Knox
