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Example sentences for "cork"

Lexicographically close words:
corer; cores; coriaceous; coriander; corium; corked; corking; corks; corkscrew; corky
  1. The products of the neighbouring cork trees and cedar groves are a source of revenue to the town.

  2. The Duke William soon afterwards proceeded to Cork to receive soldiers, and sailed from thence with a fleet of transports to Halifax, where they arrived safe, and went to besiege Louisbourg.

  3. Then whisk with it the yolks and whites of eight eggs, put it over a brisk fire, and when it boils let it simmer ten minutes; run it through a jelly bag till quite clear, put it into bottles, and cork it close.

  4. When the essence is cold put it into pint bottles, cork them close, and set them in a dry place.

  5. Boil them together twenty minutes, then skim and strain the ketchup, and when cold put it into small bottles and cork them close.

  6. Put it into a clean jar, let it stand till fine, pour it off, put it into small bottles, cork them close, and set them in a dry place.

  7. CORK HILL Come all ye happy children, and Gather round me hand in hand, Dancing to the merry cry, "See the Robbers Passing By.

  8. How to Make a Tourniquet Tie a handkerchief loosely around the limb and place a cork or a smooth stone, just above your fingers on the artery.

  9. When leaving camp I used to put all my spare matches into a dry empty bottle, cork it tight, and hide it.

  10. A sheet of blotting-paper may be placed on cork or soft wood, the specimens placed on this, and the appendages kept in the desired positions when necessary by means of pins placed beside, but not thrust through them.

  11. Or, instead of cork carpet, a sheet of cork may be used.

  12. Some of these drawers may be lined with sheet cork, and the cork covered with white paper or a thin layer of cotton wool.

  13. Tell his honor to wake up; we're in Cork now.

  14. You've only to round that point to windward, and have a clear run into Cork harbor.

  15. I, having heard that in days long past some such names had failed in Cork for a large amount.

  16. Cork accent, as the well-known and most droll features of Dr.

  17. He unscrewed the cork and gravely offered it to us each in turn.

  18. Loyal Heart and Belhumeur, concealed among the tufted branches of the cork tree, were observing the Comanches.

  19. They drew themselves up like two phantoms along an enormous cork tree, which was within a few paces of them, and embracing the gnarled trunk, concealed themselves among the tufted branches.

  20. She was married to Colonel Morgan, of Cork Abbey, county Wicklow, and was grandmother to the late H.

  21. Cork County, showed the value of this "real cheering progress," and of the "permanent improvements and increased provisions for the national health and comfort.

  22. In 1795 he was elected member for Taghmon, county Wexford, in the Irish parliament on his father's death; and after the Union he represented Cork city in the Imperial parliament.

  23. His liberal address to the Cork constituency, in 1796, is given by Plowden.

  24. He was Member for Cork City as John Hely Hutchinson of Palmerston, and afterwards as Right Hon.

  25. In 1761 he was presented by the City of Cork with its freedom in a silver box.

  26. Then he inserted the two tubes (Figure 15) into the rubber, the extremities of the paper being submerged in the liquids, producing a combination that rested upright in the cork as shown by Figure 17.

  27. Observe the result," he remarked as he replaced the tubes in the cork with their liquid surfaces on a line.

  28. Further search of the chemist will explain only to shove the word why into another space, as ripples play with and toss a cork about.

  29. He took from his pocket two slender glass tubes, about an eighth of an inch in bore and four inches in length, each closed at one end, and stood them in a perforated cork that he placed upon the table.

  30. He was born in Cork in 1793, and was a classical schoolmaster there in early manhood, having secured the degree of LL.

  31. Mighty severe," briefly and half-crustily replied the unknown, in a strong Cork accent.

  32. Into this cork is thrust the pin on which the insect is mounted.

  33. A narrow strip of pith or cork should be fastened to the lower side of the two strips of wood, closing the groove below.

  34. We halted that night in a grove of cork trees, about half a league short of the Alva.

  35. Caporal wins from chronology by the length of a cork tip.

  36. We'll make all kinds of profligate demands upon the science of cork pulling.

  37. The drawers are lined upon the bottom with cork five sixteenths of an inch thick, and are papered on the bottom and sides with good linen paper, which does not easily become discolored.

  38. In handling mounted specimens it is well always to take hold of the pin below the specimen with the forceps, and insert it into the cork by the pressure of the forceps.

  39. If the specimens have been pinned it is best to place them on pieces of sheet-cork on a tray of sand which has been thoroughly moistened and treated with a good dose of carbolic acid.

  40. When this happens they may be cleansed by pinning them down on a piece of cork secured to the bottom of a closed vessel, and gently filling it with benzine, refined gasoline, or ether.

  41. Detail drawing for paper bottom of box to take place of cork 52 71.

  42. For this purpose sheet-cork about a quarter of an inch thick is to be preferred to all other substances.

  43. Ground cork pressed into layers and covered with white paper is manufactured for the purpose of lining boxes.

  44. Such boxes provided with cork do not cost more than fifty-five cents apiece when bought in quantities.

  45. The prize proved to be the ship Rockingham, from Callao, bound to Cork for orders.

  46. The sailor no longer mounts the ratlines, as if he had cork in his heels, but climbs up sluggishly and slothfully, devoid of his usual pride to be foremost.

  47. There she had taken in a cargo of guano, for Cork and a market; the guano being owned by, and consigned to the order of the American Guano Company.

  48. In working the apparatus the weighed substance is put in the bottle and the re-agent which is to act on it, in the test-tube; the cork is then inserted.

  49. Firmly cork up the apparatus, and boil over a small Bunsen-burner flame for fifteen or twenty minutes, but avoid evaporating to dryness.

  50. The smaller mouth of the jar is closed by a perforated cork provided with a clipped tube after the manner of a burette (see fig.

  51. The cork is perforated, and in the perforation is placed a glass tube which communicates with the burette.

  52. The mouth of the flask is closed with a cork carrying a tube which is filled, the first half with calcium chloride and the second half with pumice coated with dried copper sulphate.

  53. The acid and metal are placed in the flask; which is then filled with the gas, and stopped with a cork provided with a rubber valve.

  54. Fill the pipette with dilute acid, close the clamp, and cork the flask.

  55. The flask is closed with a rubber cork perforated to carry a 20 c.

  56. Very soon every one in Cork had heard of what Father Mathew had done.

  57. He died in 1856, and all the people of Cork followed him to his burial.

  58. The people of Cork had always thought what Father Mathew did was right; and they thought so now.

  59. Bunyan wrote his "Pilgrim's Progress" on the untwisted papers used to cork the bottles of milk brought for his meals.

  60. If it were not for this cork leg of mine, Melanie, I would try and raise a small guerrilla corps, and set out on my own account.

  61. The root, or what passed for it, was simply attached to a slap of virgin cork by a couple of rusty nails.

  62. You have only to snap off a small piece of cork and unwind the stems.

  63. Particulars of the woollen fabrics of the county of Cork received from a manufacturer.

  64. It is much to be regretted that the direction of the road is not changed, as all the rest from Cork to Nedeen is good enough.

  65. Cork is one of the most populous places I have ever been in; it was market-day, and I could scarce drive through the streets, they were so amazingly thronged: on the other days the number is very great.

  66. Got to Cork in the evening, and waited on the Dean, who received me with the most flattering attention.

  67. The excise of Cork now no more than in Charles the Second's reign.

  68. Rode to the mouth of Cork Harbour; the grounds about it are all fine, bold, and varied, but so bare of trees, that there is not a single view but what pains one in the want of wood.

  69. The run from Cork to Liverpool would be slower, but the wind might veer a little, and in four-and-twenty hours the Welsh mountains would begin to show above the horizon.

  70. As if stung by a sudden sense of the sea, of its perfume and its freedom, he imagined the filling of the sails and the rattle of the ropes, and how a fair wind would carry him as far as the cove of Cork before morning.

  71. His thoughts turned suddenly to a poem written by a peasant in County Cork a hundred years ago to a woman who inspired a passion that wrecked his mind altogether in the end.

  72. Get a glass bottle or vial, with large, open mouth, and cork which you can easily put in and take out.

  73. Cork is of less specific gravity than water, therefore it floats on the surface of that liquid, whereas iron, being heavier, sinks.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    air; bar; bark; besmirch; bind; blacken; block; blockade; blot; blotch; boom; bubble; buoy; cap; caulk; censor; chaff; chink; chip; choke; clog; cobweb; cock; coif; cork; cortex; cover; crown; crush; dam; damp; darken; dome; down; drown; dust; ebony; ether; extinguish; fairy; faucet; feather; fill; float; flue; fluff; foam; foul; froth; fuzz; gag; gossamer; hat; hood; ink; jam; kill; lid; mote; murk; muzzle; oak; obstruct; pack; peel; peg; pin; plug; quash; quell; quench; raft; repress; rind; roof; seal; shade; shadow; silence; skin; smash; smirch; smoke; smother; smudge; smut; soot; spigot; spike; spile; spill; sponge; spume; squash; squelch; stanch; stay; stench; stifle; stop; stopper; stopple; strangle; straw; stuff; stultify; subdue; suffocate; suppress; tap; throttle; tip; top; valve; wood