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Example sentences for "nocked"

Lexicographically close words:
noch; noche; noches; nocht; nock; nocking; nocte; noctem; noctis; noctu
  1. Beany and Pewt and i nocked on the window and waved my claw at them.

  2. Chick Randal hit a student named Pendry rite in the nose and nocked his glasses off and Nichols nocked Johnny Lord way acros the entry and they was going to have a big fite when Bob Carter and 2 or 3 men stoped it.

  3. Well, pretty soon some people came along and looked at it and said it was a shame and they went over to pull of the paper and she came out and see it, and she took a broom and nocked it over and broke it all up.

  4. Then one of his folk unslung his shortbow and nocked a shaft, and turned to the chief as if asking leave, and the chief nodded him yeasay.

  5. When the Englishmen had their arrows nocked and their bows drawn and aimed, Simon shouted, "Tirez!

  6. Daoud pulled an arrow from his saddle quiver and nocked it.

  7. Daoud whipped a second arrow from the quiver hanging at his side, nocked it, and took quick aim.

  8. At last it was bent and an arrow nocked on the string, as he leapt over the river and up the slope.

  9. The tall man had the shaft to his ear in a twinkling, and loosed straightway, and nocked and loosed another shaft without staying to note how the first had sped.

  10. A moment later he nocked his arrow to send it circling straight and true, down, down, down to at last bury itself in the pile of dry mats.

  11. Kerim Shah nocked an arrow and sent it singing downward.

  12. Hairy fingers nocked arrows and men glared vengefully at the tower whose very silence mocked them.

  13. I crept up softly to him with a shaft nocked on the string, but when I drew near I saw him to be of the sons of the Goths.

  14. They were half way down the slope when the hunchback, stopping dead in his tracks, braced his bow and nocked an arrow.

  15. Nor was it lessened when this strange man nocked an arrow fully thirty-six inches in length and, with the greatest ease, drew his bow to send the arrow crashing into the opposite wall.

  16. Twice he had strung his bow, twice nocked his single arrow for a shot.

  17. For a half hour after that Johnny climbed from rock to rock until, with a deep intake of breath, he bent his bow, nocked his arrow, then of a sudden stood up.

  18. Seizing her bow, she nocked a broadhead and waited.

  19. Seizing Johnny's fifty pound yew bow, the hunchback picked up a second arrow of the same length and nocked it for a shot.

  20. Poised each on a knee, back to back, they set their bows and nocked their arrows, then waited breathless for the old Scot's whispered command.

  21. Then Walter stooped down and gat his bow into his hand, and stood before the Maid, while he nocked an arrow.

  22. Robin Hood's fingers wrapped lovingly around his good bow, and he smiled faintly when he felt it in his grasp, then he nocked the arrow on that part of the string that the tips of his fingers knew so well.

  23. Johnny drew back to the end of the room, then nocked an arrow and drove it through the very center of that spot.

  24. He nocked an arrow, took sudden aim, and let fly.

  25. The Armenians would never be able to get their arrows nocked and their bows drawn before the crossbow bolts began to fly.

  26. Daoud drew his double-curved bow of horn and sinew out of the case hanging from his saddle and nocked an arrow as the galloping hooves of his horse jolted his body.

  27. Then they unslung their bows and nocked arrows and stood on either side of the door, which closed behind Gobignon and the old priest.

  28. Scores of swords, bows, and spears were to be seen raised on every hand, but no arrows were nocked and no spearheads aimed her way, for she held no weapon herself and represented no threat to them or their leader Kadrug.

  29. One quickly nocked and loosed an arrow from close range, hitting the giant in the right thigh just above the plank-sized metal shin plate on his lower right leg.

  30. Birdalone stood gazing on them and wondering, and she had a mind to think that they were some show sent by her old mistress the witch for her undoing, and she loosened her sword in its sheath and nocked an arrow.

  31. Now the new-comer drew rein for a moment when he saw us, and then moved on a little toward me, but I nocked a shaft and pointed it at him, and cried out to him to stay.

  32. He ran to the foredeck and knelt on one knee, arrow nocked and ready.

  33. He nocked the arrow, took a firm stance, and drew.

  34. Rick quickly nocked another arrow and waited for a clear shot.

  35. Then he took a small broadhead arrow from the quiver, nocked it, and drew a few times to unlimber his muscles, being careful not to let the string snap out of his fingers.

  36. Thus nock them all and sandpaper them smooth throughout, rounding the nocked end gracefully.

  37. With the bow unstrung walking along the trail, often we have stopped at the word of command, strung the bow, drawn an arrow from the quiver, nocked it, and discharged it within the space of five seconds.

  38. The arrow being nocked on the string, it is ordinarily already six inches drawn across the bow.

  39. While he thrashed about thus in the tree top, we nocked two more arrows and shot.

  40. Nevertheless, we nocked an arrow again, and just as he reached the ground we were close by to receive him.

  41. Compton and Young, arrows nocked and muscles taut, crept cautiously to the thicket of wild roses out of which flew the quail.

  42. Young and I caught our breath, drew our arrows from their quivers, nocked them, and set ourselves in the archer's "stable stand.

  43. Slowly we reached for a third arrow, slowly nocked and drew it, and away it went, whispering in the air.

  44. Just as we nocked a third arrow, he freed himself from the offending shaft in his muzzle, raised his fore-paws upon a limb and prepared to leap.

  45. When the arrow is nocked it should be at right angles with the string.

  46. Geronimo nocked the arrow, raised the bow, and needed every ounce of his strength to draw it.

  47. Geronimo plucked an arrow from his quiver, nocked it, drew his bow, took careful aim at the nearest Papago, and shot.

  48. One he nocked loosely in his bow, then laid the bow where he could grasp it instantly.

  49. He turned round to me as he nocked his arrow, and said: "I would they were just fifty paces nigher, and they move not.

  50. Every man had his shaft nocked on the string; I watched them, and Will Green specially; he and his bow and its string seemed all of a piece, so easily by seeming did he draw the nock of the arrow to his ear.

  51. If the arrow be nocked at a lower point, it will beat itself against the forefinger of the left hand, and thereby waste some of the energy that should be applied to its flight.

  52. The nocked arrow is placed horizontally a little below the shoulder-level.

  53. Recent studies indicate that some of the Cretan inscriptions are prototypes of the Greece-Phoenician alphabet.

  54. But what would the American Indian have contributed to civilization?

  55. Other philosophers of this school reasoned or speculated upon the probable first causes in the creation.

  56. It emphasized the importance of measurements in investigation.

  57. The attempt to find out how things were made was an acknowledgment of the powers of the individual mind.

  58. It holds closely to monism, that is, that nature and mind are of the same substance; yet there is a slight distinction, for there is really a dualism expressed in knowledge and being.

  59. They indicated the unity of the gens, either by representing it through the totem or a mythical ancestry.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nocked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.