Get Free Checker

How To Use Cockeyed In A Sentence

  • The figures in Graham's work often look cockeyed.
  • Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
  • It's this kind of muddled headed logic that seems now so typical of his cockeyed view on many issues.
  • Does this readiness to invest in so-called safety devices represent sheer barking madness or a rather admirable brand of cockeyed optimism?
  • His designs pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins, who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns. Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
Master English with Ease
Translate words instantly and build your vocabulary every day.
Boost Your
Learning
Master English with Ease
  • With his day's growth of stubble, short black hair and cockeyed smile he seemed more like a rogue or highwayman than magician.
  • He lacks customary deference to party elders (and to the media's own cockeyed definition of reality).
  • They are just a bunch of cockeyed optimists, those stock analysts.
  • In the middle of filming of the movie, he arrived on the set weaving and cockeyed.
  • ‘I need to keep this job you know,’ she said with a cockeyed grin.
  • After 17 years of European style instrument making, he finally came up with a product, which is a hybrid mixture of discipline, practicality and Australian cockeyed optimism.
  • She just stands there, arms akimbo, with a cockeyed grin and hair in her eyes.
  • I would have thought that suburbanites would be the very last to indulge in such a cockeyed fanciful endeavour.
  • She has some cockeyed delusions about becoming a pop star.
  • It's the tale of Malcolm, an art school drop out who persuades his hapless friends to join his cockeyed crusade against the system.
  • In this cockeyed world, only the market is truly democratic, a view as crazy as it is increasingly influential.
  • He added volume at the top of the foot and placed heels at cockeyed angles to soles. From Sci-Fi Heels to Bows: a Shoe Maverick
  • His original proposition - cut taxes regressively, double military spending, shrink government and balance the federal budget - looked cockeyed from the start.
  • She has some cockeyed delusions about becoming a pop star.
  • We might ask ourselves: If these ideas are so self-evidently cockeyed and reactionary, why do they keep advancing?
  • If he needs to remind himself of something later in the day, before he gets out of the car he turns the rearview mirror cockeyed. Hints From Heloise
  • It sounds sort of cockeyed, but dreams have to start somewhere.
  • Their beehive hairdos, cat-eye sunglasses and glimmering princess dresses emoted a cockeyed cocktail-hour suburbia. Fashion's Real Housewives
  • I'm so afraid that he'll forget me, that it wasn't real, and that this will become just another nail in the coffin of my cockeyed optimism.
  • The producer comes up with this cockeyed idea, and the screenwriter pretends to treat what the producer's saying as wisdom, just so he'll get the job.
  • His cockeyed, comic leer will keep us from taking any situation too seriously.
  • Blogs open up new vistas for you and force you to consider sometimes cockeyed points of view that end up giving you more perspective.
  • Its crosshairs moved independently of the image so they ended up cockeyed instead of centered.
  • Looking at the assembly, it obviously was cockeyed, which would have caused uneven wear and tear on the seal over time, with ultimate failure.
  • As a cockeyed optimist with a cynical streak, I've got the best of both worlds.
  • Its crosshairs moved independently of the image so they ended up cockeyed instead of centered.
  • There is a cedar wreath with dried flowers leaning at a cockeyed angle against the cross.
  • Ted Shane was employed by Judge magazine, for which I made both cartoons and "cockeyed" crosswords in the 1930s. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
  • Craig is played by Keir Gilchrist, from "United States of Tara"; he's got a sweet spirit and a cockeyed Paul Simon smile. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
  • But wait until you hear the gorgeous "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine" as sung by bass-baritone David Pittsinger, who portrays Emile de Becque, the smooth French wooer of the cockeyed American optimist, Ensign Nellie Forbush. Smooth sailing
  • Why lounge around in a bar, spending money, when you could get cockeyed on the clock while dollars rolled into your pocket?
  • Pausing briefly to ask oneself how the word "cockeyed" translates into Berlin vernacular, one next inquires how the theory could have been more preposterous than at first appeared. NYT > Home Page
  • At this juncture, even a cockeyed optimist has difficulty seeing much hope.
  • She burst into the hovel, knocking the cockeyed door from its lone rusty hinge.
  • And if Glenn Beck and his "cockeyed" interpretations of the Washington power grabbers scare you, it proves you are a thinking person, and maybe you need to be scared - of what is about to change everything we all believed this country was about. Naplesnews.com Stories
  • His usual cockeyed grin betrays the fact that he's being honorably discharged for coming out to his commanding officer.
  • Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
  • There was a cold furnace festooned with service pipes and otherwise nothing but cockeyed telegraph poles and loops of wire in a bare waste of ashes.
  • That painging's not hanging straight; it's cockeyed.
  • Her ponytail is cockeyed, and it makes her head look off, swollen slightly over her ear.
  • People in the glare of passing cars, hundreds clustered on the island, their own cars parked cockeyed and biaswise, dangerously near the speeding traffic. Underworld
  • His designs pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins, who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns.
  • With a cockeyed cap, huge black gown, diploma in hand and silly grin, many college graduates envision a ready-made, wonderful life awaiting them.
  • Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
  • Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
  • ‘What needs to happen is this civic centre should be refurbished and what we don't need is some cockeyed plan put forward for another site,’ he said.
  • Most beneficiaries of this cockeyed system have the grace to keep their heads down and mouths shut.
  • Actress/director Penny Marshall is laughing off reports she's battling cancer, insisting the media gets things "cockeyed" at times. News Channel 9: Local News
  • Well, one's first impression is that nature has played a cockeyed practical joke.
  • But her long harsh sentence is cockeyed, as is Peter Beattie's very disappointing and uncharacteristically maladroit response.
  • ‘I bet it's not so long,’ he said with a cockeyed grin.
  • Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
  • Jesse Dylan Tom Waits On his 17th studio album, his first collection of new material in seven years, Tom Waits still has cockeyed metaphors to burn. The Short List
  • His designs pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins fingering cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns. Boing Boing
  • that's a cockeyed idea
  • Just call me a cockeyed optimist.

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):