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Sentence Examples They burn cork and blacken their faces, painting on big red lips, donning white gloves. If a cork seems damp or mouldy at either end, this is not necessarily a sign of any wine fault. I then used my rubber cork stopper to stopper the wine bottle after I'd drunk my fill. It also comes in a squat Victorian apothecary-style bottle with cork stopper. He began saving cork stoppers from bottles of wine drunk by his parents, then began collecting them from bars and restaurants in his home town. Many parts of the Mediterranean are facing an environmental crisis as wine makers stop using traditional cork stoppers for their wine bottles. Like a cork after its bottle, she follows her raft downstream until her companions haul her back on board. In 1840, he presented Lane as part of a conventional minstrel show, without informing his patrons that the man behind the burnt cork was black. The ends of the cork stoppers are then polished to present a smooth surface to the wine. You can cork it with a run-of-the mill wine cork or, if you want to get fancy, you can buy a rubber plugs from the hardware store. The cork floated on the surface, its quill upright like the periscope of a submarine. He studied the crystal structure of snowflakes and the honeycomb structure of cork. The long cork, heavy expensive bottle and hefty price tag indicate that the winemaker and UK seller are impressed with this wine. The vegetation in the study area consists of a mixed woodland of stone pine and cork oak. The cork oaks, olive and carob trees in the foothills and serras are evergreens. A wide green landscape, dotted with the gnarly figures of cork oaks like thousands of bent old men. The change for Tyrconnell creates a refined look achieved through the use of a rich gold foil paper label, and a cork and foil capsule closure. He said that there have been discussions to change the technology of capping the wine bottles but so far the cork has remained. Each page of the book is stapled or tacked to cork boards in four different buildings on campus. This big, rich, oaked Chardonnay might have been ready to drink had it been closed with a natural cork. Show More Sentences His ideal table has many functions, and several nubs of cork inlaid for pinning. As the men progress to the next tree, a woman gathers up the curved strips of cork and stacks them into a pile. They leak, they give the wine a plastic flavour, they are nigh on impossible to remove with a cork screw when you're squiffy. The linoleum dance floors are padded underneath with cork, giving them a springy bounce that will improve dancing stamina. I let my hands drop limply into my lap and felt the fridge-cool cork against the back of my ear and then a sudden jab of pain. The jug had been sealed with a large disc of cork, onto which about half an inch of translucent wax had been poured as an airtight seal. Did you know, by the way, that Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork? Made from the inner bark of the Mediterranean cork oak tree, cork can be cut repeatedly from trees that may be hundreds of years old. You can't throw a cork in the region these days without hitting a lush new wine from a giddy, ambitious vigneron. She stepped back until she found herself pressed up against the cork bulletin board adjacent to the blackboard. The trees not only survive, but thrive through the process, which involves stripping off the bark and removing the cork layer beneath. With Christmas and New Year looming, no doubt we'll soon be popping the cork on few sparklers. Life Of Pi's implicit lesson is that faced with the brute reality of Nature, man is but a cork on the ocean. Kaisaniemi Garden has some of the largest sycamores, Manchurian maples, American limes, cork trees, and katsuras in Finland. Instead of going in for wooden flooring with carpets or expensive tiles, opt for something cheaper yet safe like cork or rubber tiles. It is an active farm which keeps sheep, goats and pigs and produces cork and honey. In 1999, according to government figures, bottle stoppers accounted for 71 per cent of cork exports by value. Instead use healthier floor alternatives as cork, solid wood, marmoleum, tiles, bamboo, and so on. In a process very similar to extracting a cork from a wine bottle, the auger bit is twisted in and extracted without rotation. The main bathroom is on the first floor return and is fitted with a wall of cupboards and cork tile flooring. Show More Sentences And green materials, such as bamboo, cork, and recycled and recyclable carpet, will be used. They planted oaks, poplars, cork oaks, pines, chestnuts, candle pines, ashes, willows and many other trees. Today's players throw at a cork board mounted at regulation height and divided into 20 wedges, each narrowing toward the bullseye. His movie is like a cork bobbing amiably on waves of lightness and unforced gaiety. Cinnamon is actually the dried tree bark from young branches, separated from the cork and outer rind. As a nice touch, Zoch includes two cork balls with different diameters which varies the skill level of the game significantly. You can either use a belt linisher or if you are sanding by hand I find that a slightly convex cork block keeps the face from becoming rounded. True linoleum is usually also made with wood and cork fibers, and mounted on a natural jute backing. The company also uses recycled plastic, newsprint, cork, wheat straw and linoleum, a natural product of linseed. Migrating from northern Europe to the Iberian Peninsula's cork forests are blackcaps, finches, robins, and song thrushes. Mephisto makes shoes with a 100 percent biodegradable latex midsole, a natural rubber sole, and a footbed made of pure natural cork. There were also intriguing soft drinks that had a marble stuck in the neck of the bottle in lieu of a cork. In the back of the fridge, lying on its side was a large bottle of wine with a cork in it, behind the lunchmeat. Of course we had the cork to test before the wine was poured, and of course it was tasted before all glasses were filled. Armed with a long ash sapling, a ball of cord, a baited hook, a box of worms and a cork I arrived on schedule. Jamali also paints on cork, mixing pigments and scratching imagery onto the surface with sticks and his fingernails. The bottle should then be very gently screwed off the cork with one hand while the cork is held in place with the other. It's a temporary measure, because we're planning a complete bathroom make-over, to include either cork or ceramic tiles. At the far end of these instruments is a screw or a sharp point for piercing right through the cork. In turns of sealing the bottle best, a screw top probably does a better job than a cork, but there is a bit of a problem with perception. Show More Sentences The Arboretum contains four hundred species of tree and shrub including walnut, beech, cedar, giant thuya, cypress and cork oak. Therefore, trying to fill our emptiness with anything other than spiritual pursuits is like trying to plug a round hole with a square cork. I need some help with the removal of old square cork tiles from the bedroom wall. The only barrier, as they see it, is a vague, sentimental attachment among consumers towards natural cork. It cannot be detected until the wine has been bottled and the liquid comes into contact with the cork. But a new gadget, called the MERCI Retriever, is being used to unplug arteries by removing clots like a corkscrew pulling a cork from a bottle. The racing driver technique of giving champagne a good shake and prising off the cork with two thumbs is about as dangerous as motor racing. In Graham's day the now cork floor was bare, unpainted floorboards and very cold in winter. The cork is moved up and down on the rotating mandrel to get the cork bored out to the correct size. The living room is exceptionally bright and has a cork floor and sliding doors to the patio. Ben pulled the cork from the mouth of the bottle and leaned forward to help Will drink. They may grow on bark, sphagnum moss, cork plaques or in gravel or charcoal. A bung, made of glass, plastic, rubber, earthenware, silicone, or wood, is a barrel's stopper, analogous to the cork of a bottle. The Friends of Bidwell Park are removing bladder senna shrubs from the cork oak forest area. The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands. Carpets should be replaced with cork tiles, vinyl flooring or linoleum. Do not, under any circumstances, place the juice in a jug, stopper the jug with a cork, and allow it to sit in a cool, dry place for eighteen to twenty-one days. The floors were softened by cork tiles, the walls by Philippine mahogany paneling. These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests. In 2002, cotton fabrics accounted for 21.41 per cent of Bulgaria's imports from Portugal, agglomerated cork at 11.32 per cent, and synthetic fibres at 9.86 per cent. Show More Sentences The foil is there largely for aesthetic reasons since the cork should provide an airtight seal and only a faulty one will allow any seepage of wine. A litany of cork problems has built to such a point that frustration alone could well determine the speed with which we switch to the practical screw top. Honestly, they should put some kind of warning on the bottle if they're going to hide a screw top under the pretty festive wrapping where the cork should be. The walls are part tiled and there are cork tiles on the floor. Marie shredded the book's pages, enclosed the shreds within gel capsules, put the capsules inside a glass druggist's bottle, and sealed the bottle with a cork stopper. The increasing use of plastic stoppers in wine bottles is threatening the wildlife which relies upon the cork producing regions of Spain and Portugal. The orange cork wobbled and bobbled, then sank under the pea-green water. Put a thumb on the cork, untwist and loosen the wire muzzle. We're popping the cork on a champagne vintage found beneath the sea. Hardwood flooring in the living areas and cork flooring in the kitchen replaced industrial carpeting, which was hiding the original linoleum floors throughout the home. The homes also have wool carpeting and floorings made of bamboo or cork as alternatives to traditional carpeting made from synthetics, which gives off noxious gases. Set out a cork screw, bottle opener, swizzle sticks, cocktail napkins and all the necessary ingredients for making the beverages you are offering. The high mountains support typical evergreen forests of firs and cypress, whilst on the lower slopes are to be found such trees as pines, chestnuts, and cork oak. His voice rises and falls like a cork float on a fishing line. Griffin complained to the Prime Minister that no notice was ever taken of his advice on landscaping other than the planting of some cork bark trees. The kitchen itself overlooks both the front and side gardens and has a rustic feel with cork floor tiles and a good range of fitted pine presses at ground and eye level. Grow lithophytes in baskets, on cork or on gravel or other planting media. The cork district, in the northern part of the Gallura region, around Calangianus and Tempio Pausania, is composed of 130 companies. This match is bottom fishing only with cork traces, with boundaries being from the end of the South Gare to Skinningrove Jetty. Mr. Reubens, as a rock concert promoter, gets to pop his cork, spewing expletives with a patently cathartic force. Show More Sentences The right kind of screw cap is just as good as a cork, or even better, because it is more consistent. A wide variety of valuable crops including cereals, rice and cotton, and woods such as cedar and cork, are grown. A cork or plastic floater containing a wick is placed on top of the oil with the bottom of the wick submerged in the oil. They sing harvest songs and pull cork after cork after cork. Screw caps' use as an alternative to cork for sealing wine bottles is gaining increasing support. Their nanny is from cork, Ireland, and she is amazing and hilarious. By purchasing Adapt Eco Cases consumers can create a demand for corkwood thereby supporting the ecosystems cork grows in. The son and the best friend a rearguing over who will catch the cork in the net. Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic. Once in the water, it was not very steady because it bobbed around like a cork, but it was serviceable for short trips. There have been many attempts to devise ways of detecting TCA, but cork taint remains a huge, if not literal, headache for the wine industry. Elijah Galloway patented Kamptulicon in 1843, a rubber and cork based floor covering that was a precursor to linoleum. Corsica's main exports are granite and marble, tannic acid, cork, cheese, wine, citrus fruit, olive oil and cigarettes. Corked wine has cork taint, which is a reaction to chemicals which have reached the wine via the cork. Naturellement, 'e eez vairy Frainch, wiz a 'eady whiff of tradition about him, like the cork in a fine claret or a very runny piece of brie. The back nine must be one of the most beautiful sections in Europe and runs through cork oaks and pines. Cork flooring is made from cork bark, which is harvested from the Cork Oak tree. Consisting of 100,000 cork oaks, it has been in owner Luis' family for more than 200 years. We're the daftie who gets handed a bottle of champers and scuds himself on the nose when popping the cork before getting soaked with the spray. If tenants want uncovered floors, then let them install cork underflooring. Show More Sentences The new line had substituted fiberglass insulation for cork sheetboard, which had always been an expensive hallmark of the Watson Quality line. These materials include cotton, bamboo, linoleum, cork, composite wood, wheatboard and strawboard that don't contain added urea-formaldehyde. This involves accelerated phellogen activity, elongation of cork cells, dissolution of cell walls, and cell proliferation. He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red. Splash out on pottery, decorated tiles, crystal, copperware, embroidered tablecloths, filigree jewellery and cork products. They can also check out the other types of coasters that they offer, including cork, pulpboard and rubber. All I have to do is to pull the cork, send it forth among you, and you are dead men. The spec includes a hollow tip, lined guides and overslide joints with a cork and hyperlon handle. When it is inserted in a cork or piece of wood, and placed in a bowl of water it becomes a compass. The search for a cure for verbal diarrhoea must continue, but in the meantime I would prescribe an editorial cork to reduce the symptoms of this chronic condition. Cork is inherently green because it's made from the bark of the cork oak tree which grows back every three years with little to no fertilizer or pesticides needed. The cork is harvested every nine years from the bark of the cork oak tree in the Mediterranean and then the bark grows back to be harvested again. Crops of the region include olives, grapes, oranges, tangerines, and cork. Paper birch was harvested to cover canoes, chestnut bark for shingles to cover houses and cork stripped from the Cork oak is used in flooring or wine corks. Major supplier of cork underlays to reduce sound transmission. Antimutagenicity of a suberin extract from Quercus suber cork. Principal imports in the early 20th century included cotton and silk goods, coal, iron and steel, petroleum, timber, raw wool, cotton yarn and cork. It's nothing more than an ordinary cork bulletin board hanging on the chapel wall, the sort that families use to post school schedules, grocery lists, and phone messages. Furious Brocket, who was wearing an Akubra with a champagne cork hanging from it, was forced to hand over his credit card but he argued for so long he missed his plane. As I opened the champagne bottle, the cork was propelled roofward. Show More Sentences He demonstrated this in front of the British Ornithologists Union by inserting two shrike feathers into a cork which he then whirled around his head on a string. You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle. Newfoundland cod formed one leg of a triangular trade that sent cod to Spain and the Mediterranean, and wine, fruit, olive oil, and cork to England. The ball is a hard solid sphere of around half the diameter of a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together. The pipe had a wooden fipple or block in its mouthpiece, like that of a recorder, which she replaced with cork for easy carving, and for creating a more mellow sound. Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass. A corkscrew is designed so that when it is turned it creates effectively a helical undulation pushing it into the cork, whereas rotation in the opposite sense pulls it out. We're checking for cork taint, a nasty little fungus that'll murder your wine and leave it smelling like it was killed and left in a bin bag full of Stilton, leave it to us. Previous studies on cork taint in wine have shown that even though wine drinkers tasted the cork taint, they did not necessarily find the wine objectionable. As a result, Nomacorc closures provide consistent, predictable oxygen management and protect against off-flavors due to oxidation, reduction or cork taint. Gently rolling hills speckled with olive trees and cork oaks stretched out far and wide under clear blue skies and the only streams in view contained water. Examples from Classical Literature The engine is a match-box turned upside down, to which is gummed a cork covered with red or Green Paper. You can show this with a sewing needle, and a notched cork, and a bowl of water. He had seen coiled on a belaying pin on the bridge a long lead line, and on the deck still unwashed away an old cork fender. The can is a cork covered with silver paper, which is used to cover chocolates, etc. Make a hole in the cork, into which the nozzle of a soda siphon will fit snugly. Then I realized that the wine had frozen solid and had pushed the cork out by its expansion on solidification. When the cork or wooden disc edged with hat felt is used for polishing, putty or colcothar is applied to it. So we kind of retired and let the men cork you into Thompson's stope to die. The second proved the same as the first, and although the strong odor of cork or suberic acid was present, no oil appeared. Mary has been directed to draw the cork, decant, and bring the brandy in, and for this purpose has just gone off to the larder. The denatured alcohol is inserted through the filler-tube E, which is kept closed with a cork. To the end of the boulter that is shot first from the boat a cork buoy bearing a flag is fastened. It only takes a capful of wind to make things nasty on the bay, and that iron cylinder began to toss like a cork. Put some quicklime and red orpiment in water, place some warm ashes under it for a whole day, filter the liquor, and cork it down. In the second system thin strips of cork, fastened to canvas with India rubber cement, are wound around the pipe spirally. Why does the pressure applied to the handle of an air pistol propel the cork? Kamptulicon, a floorcloth composed of cork and india-rubber or similar substance. For the glass-stoppers, I had against me all the cork trade, and the wine-merchants too, who recork old wines. Linoleum, a floorcloth, being a composition of cork and linseed oil with chloride of silver. The development and configuration of the cork cells may change periodically during the formation of periderm. Show More Sentences The cork oak, Quercus suber, grows either singly among other trees or in groups, principally in the southern parts of the island. Miss Judy's cheerful spirit could no more be held down by ill luck than an unweighted cork can be kept under water. Very solemnly and seriously I unwired the cork, as if performing an almost sacrosanct ceremony. As the epidermis is at first replaced by the periderm, so in turn is this replaced by cork. We have already mentioned the evergreen or holm oak as common, and the cork oak occurs abundantly in some places. The little vessel was thus kicked here and yerked there, as if it had been a cork in the midst of the bubbling of a boiling pot. A piece of varnished glass tube is pushed through the cork, which should be varnished with shellac or with paraffin wax. Runaway River is stoppered like with a cork in the neck of a bottle. A cork any shorter than this is an aggravation as it is so unhandy. Draw the cork of that Moselle, and then I have something else to tell you. Cut a V-shaped notch in the side of the cork extending to the hole. It was plain the bottle had been just opened, for the cork and corkscrew lay beside it. No, they hold there a large, round wad of tow and cork, enveloped in the thickest and toughest of ox-hide. I never drew the cork till six months afterward, in a lonely camp, where, without anaesthetics, a doctor was compelled to operate on a man. It is after the chlorophyll is withdrawn that the layer of cork is formed. Pour it through a funnel into half-pint bottles, and cork them well. Then pour off the thin liquid from the top, and cork the jug tightly. Put the mixture into a stone jug, or a demijohn, and cork it tightly. Of course the Californians were wide awake for the drawing of the cork. This layer in the cork oak is thick enough to be of commercial importance. Show More Sentences The cork oak is grown extensively in the south and in Corsica. The cork oak forms woods, chiefly in the south of the island. Sardinia possesses a cork oak, which yields 13 to 14 per cent. Mrs. stover removed the cork and took an investigating sniff. Push the knitting needle into the cork and push the cork in the top of the bottle. Take a ketchup bottle with a screw cap and a cork that fits tightly. Time and again and countless times we watched the boat luff into the big whitecaps, lose headway, and be flung back like a cork. The funnel holding the filter paper is also sealed into the cork. Younger wines with screw tops are better because older vintages lose antioxidants in the barrel and cork tops absorb them, he said. Cut to a shot of a tiny, mewing little sea otter bobbing about in the ocean like a cork. She was as buoyant as a cork and no heavy water struck her decks. OurPets Corknip toys blend natural cork with catnip to create a toy that's incredibly exciting for cats. The jackeroo sighed as he replaced the cork after a very modest sip. As Lacey attended to the ice, Aulain began to cut the cork string. Explain why a life preserver made of cork will enable a person to float. Nude patent wedge PS325 PS325 Jimmy Choo TEAL STEAL With a comfy cork wedge heel, these are ideal summery office shoes. He tried to drink again, but when he had taken the cork out of the bottle he became ill and put it quickly back. It would be highly desirable that a cork model should be taken of the Castle of Mousa, as it cannot be well understood by a plan. He drew the cork from a bottle of sherry, and decanted the wine. Everybody was walking about St Peter's and the Vatican on somebody else's cork legs, and straining every visible object through somebody else's sieve. Show More Sentences There being no corkscrew in the house, he smote the neck of the bottle with old Peter Goldthwaite's rusty key, and decapitated the sealed cork at a single blow. Then he blacked his face with burnt cork and put the cork in his pocket. Find more words! 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