cocksure

Example Sentences

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“I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

And it became famous for Ingle's unconventional training methods which allowed his boxers to become flamboyant and cocksure with fancy footwork.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

As she read her statement in court, gone was the cocksure grin, replaced by sobbing.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

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 "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood