uncork
verb (used with object)
to draw the cork from.
had uncorked
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past perfectof uncork.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Describing the bitter and raucous incidents as "excessive," Small's embarrassed successor, Reuven Frank, 61, said last week: "It was as though somebody had uncorked something."
From Time Magazine Archive
He had uncorked the canteen and held it forward—his idea being not only that she would smell the water but become accustomed to the thing in his hand.
From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort
With his back to those in the room, so as to screen his actions, he had uncorked the phial as he was approaching the can.
From The Trampling of the Lilies by Rafael Sabatini
In the meantime Mrs Sullivan had uncorked her bottle of holy water, and plentifully bedewed herself with it, as a preservative against this mysterious woman and her dreadful secret.
From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys
Alack! with idle presumption they had uncorked a bottle, and out had popped a gin that spread his bat's pinions over the sky with stifling sulphurous stench.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
