Sentence examples for cocky in from inspiring English sources
"I was always a little too cocky in my 20s".
Then again, he said: "You never want to get too cocky in this game.
They are easily the most assured almost cocky in their self-confidence.
This is still assuredly cocky, in a Marxist-determinist sort of way, but only the mistranslation is aggressive.
Snipes is too cocky in it.' But this was exactly the same character I had written for Cage.
Mr. Fischer isn't exactly humble, but he's cocky in the way that you want your pilots, surgeons and chefs to be.
So Lee, super-cocky in his vest and roll-up, brandishing a giant sledgehammer, makes Hardy say sorry and then turns up at the detective's house with a big old file of paperwork on possible suspects the Gillespies to prove his innocence.
That voice was a lot cockier in "The Poet," the 1996 thriller in which Connelly introduced Jack McEvoy, a hotshot Denver newsman who parlays a much too personal encounter with a poetry-spouting serial killer into a best-selling book and a ride out of town to a bigger paper.
He isn't the tallest human being, he isn't the strongest, he can't jump the highest, he is not the cockiest -- in fact he's extremely humble and he looks a lot like any every day ordinary person.
"Bunch of cocky rookies in Utica in 1945, and I was the bat boy".
They argued that "countless romance novels employed 'cocky'" in their titles well before Hopkins laid claim to it, that "no one should hold a monopoly on cocky", and that "cockiness (in all its permutations) remains as prevalent in romance novels as the use of stunning, scantily clad models on their covers".
