cork-tipped
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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To navigate the world in it, Scheuermann manipulates a cork-tipped joystick with her chin.
From The New Yorker
But the truly prescient invention was the “smoke simulator”: a cork-tipped Pyrex tube containing small amounts of water, which, like the metal rod, would be inserted into a cigarette.
From The New Yorker
Why take from their elegant wrappers Your gilded cork-tipped cigarettes, Fit only for militant flappers Or reckless R.M.C. cadets?
From Project Gutenberg
The stage lights of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall glared down last week on a frail little man whose cork-tipped baton at first seemed to wave in a rhythm unconnected with the New York Philharmonic's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Lorillard began test-marketing a cork-tipped, cigarette-sized cigar in a flip-top box.
From Time Magazine Archive
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