Words similar to cocked

Example sentences for: cocked

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

go off half cocked Muzzleloaders, then as now, had a half cock, or safety position, for a gun's hammer that partially back-locked the trigger mechanism so that the weapon could not be fired.
The derivation and meaning of go off half cocked is far off the mark.
When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.
Keep an eye out or an ear cocked today for the hard-soft distinction, and you probably will encounter examples within just a few minutes (not counting the ubiquitous hardwares and softwares , hardballs and softballs ). On the BBC World Service's main morning news program a few days ago, a news reader, in a story about a Kurdish influx into Europe, spoke of Italy as having a soft immigration policy, meaning that illegal aliens are given expulsion orders but not actually subjected to any further action.
Bush grinned broadly, cocked his head back, and pointed at Bauer, as if to say, "Bang, bang, I'm dead.