How to Use cocksure in a Sentence

cocksure

adjective

• Don’t be so cocksure that your side is telling the truth, is all.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• The shift has left its once cocksure traders at times reeling.
  — Emily Flitter and Kate Kelly, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• Lue's cocksure certainty that the Cavs will make the playoffs doesn't look so doubt-free now.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• He was known among friends as cocksure and flirtatious, but also as a doting father, who fished and camped with his kids.
  — Maurice Chammah, Esquire, 22 May 2017
• On many fronts, this is a generational thing and maybe the oldest and youngest among the voters are cocksure of their stances.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• For the cocksure slopester, practical ski pants were seemingly not an option.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• Worley is chatty and cocksure, a compact ball of energy who is quick with his smile and quicker with his mouth.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 22 Sep. 2017
• For one, Columbus’s face wears the haughtiest, most cocksure expression in Lewis’s body of work.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• The Mets had resisted the idea of Harvey as anything but the cocksure superhero.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 May 2016
• Beane was so cocksure Allen’s solo act would work again that the GM made only minor moves to improve the offense.
  — Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• Even as a youth, Mellencamp had a reputation for being petulant and cocksure.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• The images Mueller and Rosenstein are projecting are pretty cocksure.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
• And though the music on ye is cocksure and often dazzling, the album leaves much of West’s recent hectoring unresolved.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 4 June 2018
• Ruben, meanwhile, is cocksure and charismatic but has a criminal record and a tendency toward violence.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 7 Apr. 2026
• Wright’s ebullient and cocksure Jay, who grabs our interest and sympathy from the start, also reveals emotional depths.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
• Tony Stark’s cocksure genius has gone from being an asset to a liability, for the character and the franchise alike.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 9 May 2018
• By Tuesday, with my cocksure prediction sitting in subscribers’ mailboxes, the network exit polls had leaked.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
• Sharp has other critics around the league; some are put off by his cocksure demeanor, and resent his habit of making bold strategic assertions without sufficient data to back them up.
  — Danny Funt, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2022
• On that occasion, he was beaten into second place by an elegant and cocksure runner named Wilson Kipsang, who broke the world record.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
• That included a skinny, brash, cocksure right-hander named Walker Buehler, who went from a first-round pick to assuming the mantle as the next one poised to break through.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
• No dreary central planner or cocksure busybody would ever have consented to such a thing, and no orchestrated economy could ever have hosted it.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• The story centers on William Johnson, the handsome, cocksure son of a wealthy Philadelphia shipbuilder.
  — John Wilwol, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Han Solo as viewers met him was already a wonderfully cocksure concotion, equal parts aloof and goofy, a guy defined by both his losing streaks and his last-minute loyalties.
  — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• The cover had already been designed, with Rickey Henderson striking his familiar, cocksure pose.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2021
• Tom Barrack snowed them, by projecting an earnestness and a cocksure confidence in his own knowingness that television finds irresistible.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021
• The outside outrage isn’t getting any quieter, with the harshest of doubters lambasting Nagy’s play-calling, game management and a demeanor some perceive as cocksure.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Everett, a fast-talking, cocksure radio host, is called in to help diagnose an electrical issue, which several people tell him is likely due to pesky squirrels chewing through the wires again.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 29 May 2020
• At times, the Camaro is downright European in its manners, while always holding close to the surface its cocksure American roots.
  — Josh Jacquot, Car and Driver, 19 July 2017
• There’s a joyfulness and cocksure energy in Eddie’s guitar playing that slashes through the troubling mire of 2020.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• There were worried grumbles through the rumor mill that Alden Ehrenreich (who plays young Han) was struggling to nail the part of the cocksure pilot during production.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 15 May 2018