Example sentences for: cork

How can you use “cork” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The serra is a verdant landscape of cork, pine, and chestnut trees, and low-lying areas are covered in wildflowers.

  • The Cork Examiner hailed it as the achievement of "lasting peace," and the Irish Times compared John Hume, the Ulster Social Democratic Party leader who played the key role in launching the peace negotiations, to "Moses entering the Promised Land"--though, as the Irish historian and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien pointed out in an op-ed article in the Times of London on Monday, Moses never actually entered the Promised Land.

  • As a student, Bob Bennett was an apprentice to Thomas Corcoran (a k a Tommy the Cork), a legal adviser to FDR who became the prototype of the Washington lawyer as fixer.

  • The rite is liberating but also frightening: Remove a cork from a bottle so pressurized, and the contents are apt to explode.

  • Asp, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.


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