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Example sentences for: cocked

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Thus, in modern parlance, when a person goes off half cocked (or at half cock ), he or she is not in control of the situation.
Lederer understood the expression go off half cocked to mean `futile gesture' because the flintlock is unlikely to spark.
Bush grinned broadly, cocked his head back, and pointed at Bauer, as if to say, "Bang, bang, I'm dead.
In early Christianity likewise, women found not merely a role, but an instrument of resistance to male domination; in choosing to be a bride of Christ they inevitably cocked a snook at lesser male fry.
My friend cocked his head as if to say, You Occidentals!