Example sentences for: cocked

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

  • My friend cocked his head as if to say, You Occidentals!

  • 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.

  • Oddly tender, he nonetheless takes his Galahad act to the point of psychosis, dashing off with gun cocked the instant he hears of a damsel in distress.

  • Bush grinned broadly, cocked his head back, and pointed at Bauer, as if to say, "Bang, bang, I'm dead.

  • Lederer understood the expression go off half cocked to mean `futile gesture' because the flintlock is unlikely to spark.


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