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
Both men stared at him, for there was something very explosive about the words, as if they had been corked up painfully for a long time.
From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)
Through the operation of the British fleet, later augmented by an American war fleet, the German ships have been corked up in their home ports and chased from the seas.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly
The neat-herd king forthwith corked up the phial, and the ghost could not get out.
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Day, Lal Behari
