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:

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.
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.
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.