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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.
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.
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.
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.