Example sentences for: cock

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

  • The rest of the time he's a preening cock, fond of quoting (without irony) a rapturous critic: "I'm meee -rac-ulous."

  • Second, a clue may name a class of objects which includes the answer, like bird for COCK.

  • Going off at half cock is dangerous, not futile.

  • The chicken has a name related to that of the cock , with its changed vowel representing its less powerful cry.

  • This feature has already been demonstrated in the very first example (the cock that crows) and also in clue F. Clue J offers two further instances: at first reading, changed is suggestive of being a past tense but after analysis it is identified as a past participle (serving as an anagram flag); likewise, quarterly shifts from adverb to noun.


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