64 examples of uncorking in sentences

He pressed wine upon me, and soon had finished a bottle himself, only to gesture Brutus to uncork a second.

Uncork the bottle; place it in a saucepan of hot water until the jelly is reduced to a liquid state; taste it, to ascertain whether it is sufficiently flavoured, and if not, add a little wine.

Occasionally the thirst of an old-time compositor would get the better of him and he would uncork a bottle.

"He'll uncork himself after the second pipe," said the sage Ajax.

He wanted to sit down and call it a day, I mean, but the thought that gave him pause was that, if he did, he must then either uncork Gussie or take the Fink-Nottle speech as read and get straight on to the actual prize-giving.

And when I saw a dark figure emerging from the porch to meet me, I prepared to let myself go and uncork all that was fizzing in the mind.

She raised the bottle after uncorking it, firmly securing the neck with her thumb.

He had but to uncork it, and set it under his nose, and the wit shot up to its place at once.

'In the act of uncorking the whiskey bottle which I had brought home to get drunk upon,' said a man to me, 'I suddenly found myself running out into the garden, where I smashed it on the ground.

970. unfetter &c 751, untie &c 43; loose &c (disjoin) 44; loosen, relax; unbolt, unbar, unclose, uncork, unclog, unhand, unbind, unchain, unharness, unleash; disengage, disentangle; clear, extricate, unloose.

Let the world uncork its buffets till he's bruised from toe to crown; Let it thump him, bump him, dump him, but he won't stay down.

Almost before we knew it we were in a bare little room behind the ancient Church of Saint Jacques, and one of the fathers was showing us a map in order that we might better understand the lay of the land; and another was uncorking a bottle of good red wine, which he brought up from the cellar, with a halo of mold on the cork and a mantle of cobwebs on its sloping shoulders.

destapar, to uncover, uncork, open.

Murchison is there nearly every day, I understand; I suppose you meet him there?" Mr. Hardy, whistling softly, rose and walked round the room, uncorking medicine bottles and sniffing at their contents.

Murchison is there nearly every day, I understand; I suppose you meet him there?" Mr. Hardy, whistling softly, rose and walked round the room, uncorking medicine bottles and sniffing at their contents.

The evening after the examination Monsieur Servien uncorked a bottle with a special seal, which he had hoarded for years in anticipation of this domestic solemnity, and the contents of which had turned from red to pink as they slowly fined.

The least I can do under the circumstances is to uncork a bottle of Pommard, and drink the health of so loyal and helpful a colleague.

Conolly, considering the uncorking of bottles of soda water a sufficiently skilled labor to be more interesting than making small talk, went to the table and busied himself with the corkscrew.

" "Go away!" said the editor, "and dud-don't come back here till you can uncork yourself like a man and a Cuc-Christian!

Poor Ibrahim's weeping eyes must be relieved at once,' and he would produce the bottle, uncork it, and hold it over Ibrahim's face as he writhed and screamed and twisted in his bonds.

But it is a fine work for all that; there is a delightful flavour about it, as of old wine, and we feel in reading each successive scene that we are uncorking a rare literary bottle of the vintage 1704.

How much of the vintage of 1898 will stand, equally well, the uncorking process if applied in a century or two from now?

Was it because he never tried to uncork himself?

This, in his English is open the letter; and he facetiously mingles it with some pompous instances, most I believe of his own framing; which in plain terms signify no more than, See, whose there; snuff the candle; uncork the bottle; chip the bread; to shew how ridiculous actions of no consequence are, when too much exalted in the diction.

Margaret, who had been about to uncork the bottle, paused, surveying Victoria with her head on one side.

64 examples of  uncorking  in sentences