How To Use Corker In A Sentence
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And if the rest of the Comedy Festival is as entertaining and funny as this opening, then we're in for a corker.
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Not that I neglected my studies entirely or failed to burn a reasonable portion of "midnight oil," sometimes indeed with a great show of industry particularly on a night before a hard examination; but luckily enough I was pretty well fortified in Greek and Mathematics before I got to the University, and it did not take much effort to keep abreast of my classes without being conspicuous one way or the other either as "curler" or "corker," that is, in the current vernacular, either as a bright particular star in the firmament or as a sacrificial lamb led to the slaughter.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
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And that eight-minute trampoline climax is an absolute corker.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each signposted spot is an absolute corker, and if you want to see them all, you need at least a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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The full forward's third goal, after Kingussie had twice come from behind to draw level, was a corker, but Ross will have to wait until the television highlights to appreciate the full brilliance of his effort.
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Some of the critics in the county who had hammered Corkery for more than a decade were lining up Masters as their next legitimate target.
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that story was a corker
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Wow, this sounds like it will be another corker.
The Sun
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Hazelton and Dan Dalzell, sure that Dick had a "corker" of a scheme, grinned as happily as though they had already seen it put through with a rush.
The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving
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Sollicker Somewhat equivalent Something excessive. to "corker
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
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Mind you I thought that this quote was an absolute corker.
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There's hardly a big-sky stereotype he doesn't trick out with new tricks - wait till you catch the man-with-no-name corker he's come up with - but he and co-screenwriters John Logan and James Ward Byrkit are cribbing their plot points not just from classic Westerns but from the likes of
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There have been some real corkers, but for unalloyed wonderfulness the latest Porsche 911 is about as good as a car can get.
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The end instrumental ‘Centre of Gravity’ is a worthy corker too, layered drone like synths that make you want to lie back close your eyes and drift away in their slipstream of cathedralesque abandonment.
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She told an absolute corker of a story about a priest she'd mistaken for an ex-lover.
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She told an absolute corker of a story about a priest she'd mistaken for an ex-lover.
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I reckon they'll see a corker of a game.
The Sun
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Manson's deadpan seriousness in wailing these corkers out, banshee style, detracts from the album's good points, namely its well-mixed beats and darkly atmospheric sounds.
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Like the majority of his breed, Corker (for such was his name) had ever been wistful to be noticed by any one -- effusively grateful for every word or pat, an ever-ready wagger and nuzzler, to none ineffable.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
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Well written, diverse and with some wonderful illustrations - this book makes for a real corker of a read.
The Sun
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But Tamara has more pressing problems than the technological revolution: desperate to escape from her precarious employment writing top ten lists for the paper's downmarket Psst! section "Corkers to Porkers – From Fab to Flab" is one of her triumphs, she dreams of ascending to the penthouse corridors of its cerebral stablemate S*nday, more likely to set before its discerning readers Sontag and Steiner than slappers and suntans.
The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
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Goals by Adam Wash, Phil O'Reilly, with two corkers, and Mark Wood won it for Pickering, who face Bridlington in the final of the Wilkinson Sword Trophy second leg tomorrow night.
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A corker is something very special … almost one of a kind.
Twilight Lexicon » On The Red Carpet: Interviews With Booboo Stewart and Charlie Bewley
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Nick Denton promised a story of the leak would publish later that night, and that it would be a real "corker" (blimey!).
Fast Company
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It's about as good as the title suggest ie; not very, but there are some corker tracks.
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Fans of the British catwalk star will agree she looks a real corker as usual.
The Sun
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Write to Carrick Mollenkamp at [email protected] and Michael Corkery at michael.corkery@wsj.com
Banks Get Tough With Municipalities
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From time to time you get a real corker.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have some corkers, but it's often the late, unconsidered letter that makes the reader shout with glee.
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Yet just when The Moon have apparently filed themselves under ‘Far Too Easy Listening’, they produce a corker - the astonishingly good ‘Hero Gets The Girl’.
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The cast is an absolute corker, and the brilliant yarn, about blokes and their battles with love, family and life, comes from the Seachange team.
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She told an absolute corker of a story about a priest she'd mistaken for an ex-lover.
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Cowen & Co. analyst Cai von Rumohr says Boeing is selling itself short with a too-low guidance after a "corker" of a first quarter.
Boeing's Stellar Q1 Deserves Higher Guidance
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True to High Fidelity rules, Lullaby of Birdland opens with a corker: an on-air medley of Take the A Train and Caravan by Duke Ellington.
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Accordingly, when put upon another boy's back to be horsed, as it was termed, he slipped a large pin, called a corker, in his mouth, and on receiving the first blow stuck it into the neck of the boy who carried him.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Screen legends have always taken the inadvertent production of the odd crashing B-movie in their stride and this one's an absolute corker.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Democrats push for a single Republican vote needed to give the White House a filibuster-proof Sen.te majority on financial regulation legislation, Tennessee Sen. Robert Corker remains at or near the top of their "persuadable" list.
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We got our copy of this year's yesterday and it's a corker.
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He told her that she was a "corker," a "dream," and "one sweet song," and that the picture did not do her justice.
We Can't Have Everything
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I might be just a little biased, but this album is an absolute corker, chocka full of great songs that brilliantly document Melissa's move from New York to rural Kansas.
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All right, so their influences are truly opaque: The Beatles, Beach Boys and Oasis, but they have written some corkers and given a new twist to bubblegum pop.
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) also complained that the effort to garner key votes had allowed a handful of senators to "hijack" the process over a few parochial issues.
House-Senate panel works to move financial regulation bill to Obama
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The corker was a woman who, in an initial interview, said she had never been sexually abused.
Women Who Don’t Call It Rape
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Write to Michael Corkery at michael.corkery@wsj.com and Carrick Mollenkamp at [email protected]
Mutual Funds' Muni-Debt Prices Are Questioned
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-- when they went out together in Lake Rosseau and Kernin landed a perfect monster, a regular corker, five pounds and a half, they said; or no, I don't think he _landed_ him.
Frenzied Fiction
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As Democrats push for a single Republican vote needed to give the White House a filibuster-proof Sen.te majority on Tennessee Sen. Robert Corker remains at or near the top of their "persuadable
WN.com - Financial News
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Corker became a Senator by running that heinous ad against Rep. Ford suggesting he was 'commingling' with a blonde white woman.
Senator's daughter is carjacked
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The hotel's restaurant sources much of its food locally and, challenged to come up with a Yorkshire breakfast, Andy's chef Steve Varley produced a real corker.
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The CD that comes with this week's NME is a bit of a corker, actually.
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I have some corkers, but it's often the late, unconsidered letter that makes the reader shout with glee.
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And it was an absolute corker.
The Sun
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And the new series is an absolute corker.
The Sun
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The first point of the practice match against the Russian was an absolute corker.
Times, Sunday Times
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September 28th, 2009 6: 25 pm ET the porker is a corker
Beat 360° 9/28/09
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Next, an absolute corker of a day was had in Burgess Park.
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There is a corker gathering steam not far from my cottage over the siting of a compost heap.
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Calling this match became something of a lottery and it was only by word of mouth yesterday that we learned that wing Colin Shaw had got the third try, although his second was an absolute corker and totally unmissable.
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There is a corker gathering steam not far from my cottage over the siting of a compost heap.
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Another corker from the'Is it true?
Times, Sunday Times
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Amongst stunning headlines appear a few absolute corkers, complete with astonishing introductory paragraphs.
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This weekend promised to be a corker as a) we have four days off work, and b) the weather was promised to be good.
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A bumper crowd at HQ will enjoy what should prove to be an absolute corker of a match, with Wasps and the Tigers providing a climax to this season's series of titanic encounters.
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Working not only across Simenon's Electric Tones label but also having finishing the latest Bomb The Bass record, the London duo of Corker and Conboy have certainly been busy little beavers over the past year.
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To give you an idea of some of the real corkers in the garden (so you can get them in the ground now), I'll tell you about my favourite autumn beauties.
