How To Use cocked hat In A Sentence
- A fascinator, for those of you who have been living in a cardboard box under the stairs for the past six months, is a dinky little head piece that is set to knock the traditional big race day hats into a cocked hat this year.
- The governor wore a cocked hat trimmed with white feathers.
- The governor wore a cocked hat trimmed with white feathers.
- He sat back in the open coach, "hunched" together in an ungainly heap, looking neither to the right nor the left, evincing no consciousness of the existence of the shouting throngs that lined the pavements ten deep, other than by raising, with the lifeless precision of a mechanical toy, the cocked hat he wore as part of the uniform of a British colonel. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
- My mother is such a good cook she knocks everybody else into a cocked hat.
- There he stood calling hastily for a drink; and her heart more than her eyes took in his, to her, consecrated signalment -- the riding-boots, short clothes, blue coat, cocked hat, ruffles. Balcony Stories
- This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
- He was equipped for instant duty, as far as the imperfect twilight would allow me to see; the long sword clanked upon the floor as he made his way through the lobbies which led to my place of confinement; his ample military cloak hung upon his arm; his cocked hat was upon his head, and in all points he was prepared for the road. The Purcell Papers
- The cocked hat, which had been worn by some warrant officers and midshipmen, was replaced by this tall black hat for both ranks.
- This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
