Sentence examples for cocky manner from inspiring English sources

His job gave him a certain prestige and he behaved in a somewhat cocky manner.

"I was told in a rather cocky manner" by a national security representative, Ms. Dalglish recalled, that "the Risen subpoena is one of the last you'll see".

Barrett nearly won the match by signalling for the Bull Hammer but he had slapped Ryback in a cocky manner, which only infuriated The Big Guy and switched the momentum.

In response, the governor -- in a characteristically cocky manner that charmed some and struck others as arrogant -- joked that fewer and fewer Democratic governors seemed capable of keeping their jobs.

" Although this is a question, ask confidently, almost in a cocky manner.

If she turns her head in a cocky manner, but is still looking at you, then this is also a sign that she could like you.

I remember, in the face of my cocky, faux-blasé manner, her shyness, reducing her to deep-toned monosyllables.

Claudio López equalised for Argentina in the 17th minute, nutmegging Edwin van der Sar in a manner so cocky as to remind us why the one-on-one is football's greatest masculinity-waving contest.

Valdez is about forty, stocky, swarthy, and graying, but there is something of the cocky teen-ager in his manner.

Not that Mr. Carney, a Liverpudlian with a self-effacing manner and a cocky, sly-eyed grin, made too much of his final evening at the bar.

At the same time, in a parallel story, her ex-boyfriend Ismaël (Mathieu Amalric), a manic-depressive with bright eyes and the eager manner of a cocky teen-ager, argues merrily with two orderlies who arrive at his apartment to cart him off to the loony bin.