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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.
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.
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.
My friend cocked his head as if to say, You Occidentals!
Lederer understood the expression go off half cocked to mean `futile gesture' because the flintlock is unlikely to spark.