cocksure

Example Sentences

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With Maps of the Country Through Which the Routes Pass, in the Northern, Middle, and Eastern States, a book whose title was as grand and cocksure as the New World it so thrillingly described.

From Literature

Instead, the top results consist of many outraged responses to Lemon's cocksure proclamation.

From Salon

The cocksure 5-foot-7 righty hopped around excitedly all night, slapping his glove after inducing a pair of inning-ending double plays and even flipping his bat away after drawing a late walk at the plate.

From Fox News

"I didn't go up there all cocksure about becoming a phenomenal game show host, I wanted to be me," he says.

From BBC

His cocksure declaration that the terrorists would "hear from us real soon" at the World Trade Center site had pundits swooning as if he had delivered FDR's "a day that will live in infamy" speech.

From Salon