Example sentences for: cockney

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

  • (Keats, for example, was ridiculed for writing "Cockney poetry."

  • This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).

  • ); Jamie Shea ("Each week the Nato press spokesman with a Cockney accent has been forced to explain away an array of Nato mistakes--in English and French.

  • In Cockney English, for example, where initial h is regularly dropped there is a tendency to compensate by supplying initial h where it does not belong.

  • Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is the laborious title of an even more laborious Cockney action movie that some people think is the cat's pajamas crossbred with the bee's knees.


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