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UK
/kˈɔːkɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɔɹkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɔɹkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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very good
you look simply smashing
we had a grand old time
a neat sports car
had a great time at the party
he did a bully job
How To Use corking In A Sentence
- Our problem with the Vin Au Verre is not the price (which we can only guess is steep) but that the experience of uncorking, decanting and appreciating the bottle is lost. The Kegerator for Wine | Impact Lab
- ‘Very well, thankee, uncle,’ returned Mr. Sempronius, who had just appeared, looking something like a ringdove, with a small circle round each eye: the result of his constant corking. Sketches by Boz
- The bottling and corking machines are usually sterilized by steam, or by chemical sterilants.
- a hollow stem, or beets or turnips that split and crack, or where we have so-called drouth spot or internal corking in apples, you can be sure that you can't grow a Persian walnut, because the boron requirement alone is many, many times that of an apple or of most vegetables. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
- No, it isn't exactly trouble," went on Joe, "and I suppose I ought to be corkingly glad of it; but I hadn't counted on leaving the Central Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles
- Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland
- Because you really would do them so corkingly, you know, if only you should do them. The Merryweathers
- The issue of limited quantities of natural cork and the problem of corking, when the wine takes on a corked taste, are leading to the increasingly widespread use of silicon corks and screw tops.
- Eyebrow-raising in print, they sound gripping here because of Andrews' glorious dagger-through-honey vocals, which combine with occasional strings and his band's raw passion to produce a corking debut.
- After pouring himself a glass and corking the bottle, he slid back into the pillows beside her.