How to Use cork in a Sentence

cork

1 of 2 noun
  • But a cork is more than a plug.
    — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
  • The cage on the cork must be turned six times.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Put the cork back in the bottle.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Hold the cork and turn the bottle.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Pull the cork about halfway up.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Triple corks are the trick that could win the men’s halfpipe.
    — Joseph Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • When done right, cork fabrics and cork leathers hit all the right notes.
    — Gabriella Sotelo, Treehugger, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Some soles, such as those made of cork, contour to the shape of your foot.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Trim the mat to fit the corks if necessary.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Halve your corks length-wise, and use them to create adorable, log-like steps.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2025
  • To avoid this problem, just wrap the cork in wax paper.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
  • To avoid this problem, just wrap the cork in wax paper.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Fill it with water and plug the hole using a cork or plug.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Pour the corks into the bottom of the planter and add soil on top.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Wine corks also make cute place card holders and wine glass charms.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The cork cabinet has a small door that opens on the side of the unit.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • With just a click of a button, your cork will be popped in seconds.
    — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Pour shots into test tubes, leaving space at the top for the test cube cork.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The top is covered by a cork lid with a small hole for tossing in dirty clothes.
    — Sarah Wolf Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Followed by a cab triple cork 1440!
    — Joseph Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • And no one does a cork sole better than Birkenstock.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Once the cork is exposed, simply place the corkscrew over the cork, and pull the lever up.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Bottles are stored upside down to keep corks from drying out.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This collection of four is made of durable sandstone and cork.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Hot glue the corks side-by-side in a rectangular shape.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Just popping out the cork starts a journey for your senses.
    — Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Just popping out the cork starts a journey for your senses.
    — Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Just popping out the cork starts a journey for your senses.
    — Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 27 June 2026
  • The shoe features a cork footbed that molds to the shape of your foot, and a soft leather upper.
    — Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025
  • So the very notion of how to spend an evening was to pop a cork and tell stories and sing songs.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 10 Jan. 2026

cork

2 of 2 verb
  • Fielding, a cloud over his head, is assigned to cork the leak.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Wine is also available to drink at the bar with a corking fee.
    — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Then re-cork or cover the opening of the bottle and give it a little shake.
    — Amelia Goe, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2021
  • And the bottle should be opened by turning the bottle itself, not to cork.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Peppers with smooth skins will be less hot than peppers that display corking.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Peppers with smooth skins will be less hot than peppers that display corking.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2026
  • If discharge still feels excessive, don't just cork it; go to your doctor to get checked out.
    — Ashley Oerman, Cosmopolitan, 30 Apr. 2015
  • Over the past two decades, no team has kept champagne bottles corked like the Indians.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Cork Taint When a wine is described as corked, the culprit is something known as cork taint.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Slightly less than a year later, he was ejected from a game after umpires found his broken bat to be corked.
    — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The brash freshman who spent much of the season bragging to teammates about his power corked a bat to crush balls even farther.
    — Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Moreover, fragments of plaque in large arteries can break away to cork smaller vessels downstream.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • As the pressure rises, his brain jams downward through the only exit, corking bloodflow.
    — Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Allee corked a home run over the left-field fence — the ninth Norco player to hit a home run this season — to lead off the top of the seventh.
    — Steve Galluzzo, latimes.com, 3 June 2017
  • All of the bottles are corked, and two layers of rubber are added to prevent saltwater from leaking in—and wine from leaking out.
    — Avery Matera, SELF, 19 July 2017
  • Web-like striations or corking on jalapeño skins occur when plants are stressed by irregular watering, dry soil, or high heat.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Web-like striations or corking on jalapeño skins occur when plants are stressed by irregular watering, dry soil, or high heat.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2026
  • Web-like striations or corking on jalapeño skins occurs when plants are stressed by irregular watering, dry soil, or high heat.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Silberman and his brother David worked in the winery and were in charge of corking bottles and placing them into carts.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
  • Maybe players didn’t want to pop amphetamines, cork their bats, scuff up the baseballs or take steroids, but these were trends, producing great results.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • For example, a wine that’s corked is often said to smell like a damp basement or wet dog, while a wine that’s too old is generally described as dusty and dried out, all tannin, no fruit.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Stacked in neat piles beneath the remnants of the 19th-century building’s stairs were several hundred bottles, some still corked and full of sloshing fluid.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Once upended, the sediment falls into the neck of the bottle, which is then briefly frozen so when the cap is removed the frozen plug of sediment is expelled by the carbonation of the wine; the bottle is then corked.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • The 18th-century preservation process involved placing the cherries in dry bottles, corking them and then burying them under heavy clay, to protect the fleshy fruits from elements like mold and fungus.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 20 June 2024
  • Throughout the night, Champagne corks flew across the room, and a palpable buzz grew in anticipation of a top-secret musical act, which around midnight was revealed to be none other than Travis Scott.
    — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Ruby is gripped with fear every time fireworks go off or when a bottle is corked open, essentially whenever anything sounds like gunshots—making the season’s opening New Year’s Eve party particularly difficult for him.
    — Candice Frederick, Teen Vogue, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Gramona’s tour also includes a look at the shiny new machinery that allows for methode Champenoise, and a deep dive into cava caves named for different females of a family that has made Spanish sparkling since 1850 — and still corks bottles by hand.
    — Mark C. Anderson, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
  • In 2012, Superstorm Sandy inundated the oldest and lowest stations in Manhattan and inspired innovations like an inflatable plug big enough to seal off an entire tunnel and keep floodwater corked and contained.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025

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