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Example sentences for "corked"

Lexicographically close words:
cores; coriaceous; coriander; corium; cork; corking; corks; corkscrew; corky; corm
  1. The match bottle he corked carefully and put exactly where it belonged.

  2. He plucked a handful of dry grass for tinder, arranged his fire, and lighted it with a sulphur match that he took from a corked bottle.

  3. The corked eyebrows and mustaches were smeared over the perspiring, flushed, and merry faces.

  4. They hold the gas so long as they are in a well-corked vessel.

  5. The solution is then well shaken in the tube, and the corked end plunged into water.

  6. Twenty four grains of magnesia in fine powder were mixed with five ounces of the caustic ley in a small vial, which was immediately corked and shaken frequently for four hours.

  7. Twenty seven grains of magnesia in fine powder were mixed with eighteen ounces of lime-water in a flask, which was corked close and shaken frequently for four days.

  8. This was corked with a wooden stopper, in which stopper a wire pin was fixed, long enough to reach down to the bottom of the gourd.

  9. But he handled them with care, and the remainder of the liquid he poured into a small gourd (similar to that in which he carried his coca-lime), which he closely corked up with a piece of the pith from a palm.

  10. The night before this experiment the children should set out in the cold air, tightly corked bottles of water.

  11. When the plaster has set, keep the bottle tightly corked to retain the poisonous gases.

  12. Both eyes were now in eclipse in the effort to apprise his master that with the exception of some badly corked Madeira, Tom Coston's peach brandy was about the only beverage left in the cellar.

  13. Every one was on the qui vive, as Kennedy placed on the table a small wire basket containing some test-tubes, each tube corked with a small wadding of cotton.

  14. Kennedy placed an empty corked flask on the table.

  15. A few leaves of parsley minced fine can be added to the sauce; keep the caper bottle corked closely; do not use any of the liquor; if the capers are not well covered with it they will spoil.

  16. When corked let the bottle be well filled up.

  17. Anyway, while I waited at the bend, wondering what to do, a swarm of corked bottles came floating downstream.

  18. At first she could not be certain what it was, and then she decided that it must be a corked bottle.

  19. Approaching the vicinity of the ark, they noticed many corked blue bottles caught amid the debris of the sluggish stream.

  20. With a suspicious glance directed at Penny and Louise, he reached into the box and selected one of the corked bottles.

  21. In crossing the room, Penny deliberately stumbled against the box of blue corked bottles.

  22. Opening it, he tossed into the muddy waters a half dozen corked bottles which he selected from a basket beneath the window.

  23. Tis the turn of yonder old gentleman," said the Soldier who cheated the Devil, and he pointed with the stem of his pipe to the Fisherman who unbottled the Genie that King Solomon had corked up and thrown into the sea.

  24. Then, when the Demon had done all that the king wished, the king conjured him into a bottle, corked it tightly, and set the royal seal on the stopper.

  25. Unseen of Gray he took a bottle he had secreted in his pocket and drank the few drops remaining in it, then corked it and put it back.

  26. He drank a little from the bottle and corked it again.

  27. He has long been corked up in the glass bottle.

  28. He was sitting in a well-corked crystal bottle, on a shelf, in the library of Archivarius Lindhorst.

  29. The concentrated acid should be kept in tightly-corked bottles, as it absorbs moisture from the air very rapidly.

  30. Keep this fluid in corked bottles, labelled, with date: Bichromate Battery Fluid.

  31. Jar containing corked flask of boiling water on a pad; the heated gas rises and the cold air descends to take its place.

  32. All that is necessary to be done, is to place the vial or flask, in a saucepan of warm water, and gradually raise it to the boiling point till the salt is completely liquefied, when the vessel must be corked and secured from the air as before.

  33. These essences, which should be kept in well-corked bottles, are employed by dropping them cautiously into the sweetened spirit until the desired flavour is produced.

  34. As soon as the chlorine ceases to be developed, let the bottle be disconnected from the apparatus in which the gas has been generated, corked loosely, and shaken until the chlorine is absorbed.

  35. As nearly all powders suffer by exposure to the air and light, they should be preserved in closely-corked opaque or green-glass bottles, or in tin canisters from which the external air is carefully excluded.

  36. It must be preserved in a well-corked bottle until required for use.

  37. In trade it is preserved in well-corked and sealed bottles.

  38. The bottles must be well corked and kept in a cool place.

  39. The saccharine iodide may be kept for some time in a corked bottle without undergoing decomposition.

  40. A and B (the latter containing the sulphuric acid) are then corked air-tight, and thus connected in one apparatus, the whole is accurately weighed.

  41. This is the cause of the deposit that usually forms in them (especially in the expressed oil of orange) when kept in an ill-corked vessel.

  42. He held in his hand a corked bottle which he had just seized a few cables' length from the shore.

  43. The engineer corked them by means of a stopper through which passed a glass tube, bored at its lower extremity, and intended to be plunged into the acid by means of a clay stopper secured by a rag.

  44. Peter corked it up, and corked it tightly, I can tell you.

  45. After they were done, the two tall men took table and dishes and all back into the bottle again, and the little gentleman corked it up.

  46. Then Claus caught the white snake, and put it into the bottle and corked it up tightly.

  47. I suppose it rises in the air just as an empty bottle well corked rises in the water?

  48. A short summary of their history was written, corked up in a bottle, and fastened to the mast of the Mary, which was then cut adrift.

  49. The whisky bottle which had been corked was upon the floor unbroken and about a third full.

  50. As I had seen him emptying into his pocket the contents of a corked bottle of quinine tabloids which he always carried with him, I guessed very well that his object was to procure a sample of this water for future analysis.

  51. And there was I with my corked moustache acting a regular old bean of a doctor.

  52. She put on an old cap of Derrick's, corked a moustache, and borrowed the pistol.

  53. He put the bat back into its case, corked the oil-bottle, and again stood looking at his household gods.

  54. When clear, it should be bottled and closely corked for a year; it will then be ready for use, but will keep any length of time.

  55. This is a very simple and expeditious manner of preparing coffee for a large party, but the essence for it must be made very good, and kept well corked until required for use.

  56. So I bought a quart of it, corked it up very tight, put it in my sack, and held it in store against the wineless places on the flanks of the hill called Terrible, where there are no soldiers, and where Swiss is the current language.

  57. Hydrophilus, and will live a long time in a bottle filled with water and corked tight.

  58. The drawers of your cabinets should be about 18 inches square, and from the glass to the corked bottom about an inch and a half in depth: but the larger Dynastidae, as Megasoma Actaeon, &c.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.