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Example sentences for "cocks"

Lexicographically close words:
cockney; cockpit; cockpits; cockroach; cockroaches; cockscomb; cocksure; cockswain; cocktail; cocktails
  1. Allow me to congratulate you on the sums of money you won by the main of cocks at --- I hope you brought it all safe home.

  2. Pea and thimble," said the landlord, "not I; those confounded cocks left me nothing to lose by the pea and thimble.

  3. From the lower end of the cylinder there is a passage which, by means of a rotating or reciprocating slide, is alternately put in communication with inlets for gas and air (regulated by suitable cocks or valves) and with a strong receptacle.

  4. As soon as the gas reaches 6 or 7 atmospheres the cocks of the buoy and reservoir are closed, and the connecting tube is removed.

  5. It grew louder and louder until Bucks could hear the ringing of a bell and the hissing of the open cylinder cocks of a slow-moving locomotive.

  6. By the increasing noise of the open cylinder cocks he concluded it was backing toward him.

  7. The education of their cocks costs both much pains, often more than that of their sons.

  8. I'm weary of all these strangers who talk of nothing but cocks and cards.

  9. And from all sides, in all sorts of vehicles, arrive the guests, known and unknown, many bringing with them their best cocks and sacks of gold to risk in the gallera, or on the green cloth.

  10. Little children in nests of scarlet rags, on loaded camels, clasped squawking cocks and hens, tied by the leg.

  11. As the cocks were crowing, a worthy farmer, living near the road, was awakened by the sound of horses.

  12. Gold clouds barred the east, the cocks crew, and crows came cawing from the woods to the vast, brown cornfields.

  13. But first you must tell me whether they are cocks or yellow birds.

  14. At length the cocks crowing for day proclaimed the morning, and while yet the blue shadow of the bluff was on the town, Colonel Clark sallied out of the gate and walked abroad.

  15. Peacocks and turkey-cocks alone can spread wheel-wise their fan-tails, as also the cock bustard; they alone are provided with great wattles.

  16. But the tetras, heather-cocks of North America, have still more curious customs.

  17. He took not a spark of interest in the gaming cocks we raised together to compete at the local contests and at the fair, and knew not a gaff from a cockspur.

  18. These college fellows are cocks of the walk just now, but some day you'll be able to snap your fingers at all of 'em.

  19. Somewhat to the jeopardy of the academic standard that my father expected me to sustain, our rooms became a rendezvous for many clubable souls whose maudlin, midnight attempts at harmony often set the cocks crowing.

  20. Lubricate the two stop-cocks with resin ointment (Fig.

  21. Open both stop-cocks of the Bulloch's apparatus and pass the gas through until it has completely replaced the air in the bell jar as shown by the result of analyses of samples collected from the exit tube.

  22. Next morning he was wakened by the challenging and replying of the sentinel-cocks, whose crowing sounded to him more clear and musical than that of any of the cocks at home.

  23. The very cocks walk about the yard as if they had hearse-plumes in their tails.

  24. A lad, being offered some game-cocks that would die upon the spot, said that he cared not for cocks that would die, but for such that would live and kill others.

  25. Charms for cocks have already been mentioned (p.

  26. THE MAIDS AND THE COCK A mistress used to wake the Maids at night and, as soon as the cocks crowed, put them to work.

  27. He lay there for a long time, and the cocks crowed, and then only did he fall asleep.

  28. So the Falcon said to the Cock: "In you Cocks there is no gratitude; one can see that you are of a common breed.

  29. At times it is a whole brood,--a hen with all her chicks, and at others a cock with his hen, or several cocks together.

  30. In doing so he noticed the two stop-cocks were opened and he turned them off.

  31. Then he closed the one window, turned out the two gas-jets, and opened the stop-cocks again.

  32. In the yard the hens cackle, the cocks crow, and the hogs grunt, all terrified by this merriment of man.

  33. The Consul has lost on his cocks and in the bank all that he won from us at the fiesta of BiƱan and at that of the Virgin of the Pillar in Santa Cruz.

  34. Then the other is given a like opportunity, for in every duel there must be fair play, whether it is a question of Parisian cocks or Filipino cocks.

  35. The skilled attendants carry the two cocks into the arena, a white and a red, already armed but with the gaffs still sheathed.

  36. The starters hold the cocks with skilful delicacy, taking care not to wound themselves.

  37. On the perfectly leveled ground the cocks fight, and from there Destiny apportions to the families smiles or tears, feast or famine.

  38. The chorus of curious bystanders and the gamblers spread the news that two celebrated cocks will fight, each of which has a history and a well-earned reputation.

  39. Raising and lowering their heads as if to gauge one another with a look, the two cocks utter sounds of defiance and contempt.

  40. I'm bored staying here among so many strangers who talk only of game-cocks and cards.

  41. Many of the big houses in Castro boast a large 'scutcheon over the door, little crazy towers with iron weather-cocks on the roof; and some of them a huge stork's nest.

  42. The cocks are still crowing, the sound of the church bells is scattered on the air, and the sun begins to penetrate into the streets in gusts of light.

  43. And in Mionoseki there are no cocks or hens or chickens or eggs.

  44. It is much easier to make three pumps, each with separate pinch cocks to regulate the mercury supply, than it is to make three jets, each delivering exactly the proper stream of mercury to three fall tubes.

  45. This is easily attained by regulating the main mercury supply at the pinch cock situated between the tube from the upper reservoir and the air-trap tube, the other cocks being almost wide open.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.