COCK in a Sentence

Learn COCK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

100 example sentences for COCK, such as:

1. A cock is bold on his dunghill.
2. Every cock crows on its own dunghill.
3. A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
4. As the old cock crows, so doth the young.
5. Pay 'em money to cut off the world's cock.'

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 Meanings and Examples of COCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cock
 v.  tilt or slant to one side
 v.  set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  Soon afterwards, as they were passing by a farmyard, they saw a cock perched upon a gate, and screaming out with all his might and main.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
2  'With all my heart,' said the cock: so they all four went on jollily together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
3  'That would be a noble lodging for us,' said the cock.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS
4  Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
5  When the first cock crowed, the manikin carried her back to the royal palace, and laid her in her bed.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE BLUE LIGHT
6  But the doctor sat still and opened his A B C book, turned the pages backwards and forwards, and looked for the cock.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In DOCTOR KNOWALL
7  She took her chair and looked through the smoke at a crude glass painting of a cow in a stable; also at a cock and a hen.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
8  There was obviously no more to be made of Athelstane; or, as Wamba expressed it, in a phrase which has descended from Saxon times to ours, he was a cock that would not fight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  Set the mind and the reason to cock it over the rest, and all they can do is to criticize, and make a deadness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  Pay 'em money to cut off the world's cock.'
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  Oh, game-keeper or not, you're a good cock.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  Mr. Dawkins gave his hat a ferocious cock, after delivering this sentiment, and looked at Master Bates, as if to denote that he would feel obliged by his saying anything to the contrary.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  Finally, just as mention was being made of a turkey cock, Chichikov fell asleep.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  In the third circle, Naryshkin was speaking of the meeting of the Austrian Council of War at which Suvorov crowed like a cock in reply to the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
15  "They have brought the cock, Miss," she said in a whisper.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
2  Don't go off at half cock and accept any offer you'll regret later.
3  A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
4  As the old cock crows, so doth the young.
5  He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull.
6  Every cock crows on its own dunghill.
7  A cock is bold on his dunghill.
8  A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
9  A rooster, cock or cockerel is a male chicken, the female being called a hen.
10  The cock has brighter coloured feathers than the hen.
11  The travel agent completely cocked up the arrangements for our holiday.
12  This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
13  The dog cocked its leg by every tree on our route.
14  A true professional could knock my efforts into a cocked hat.
15  The dog cocked its ears at the sound of footsteps.