11.   Keep an ear cocked for this oxymoronic rhetorical trick in your own cocktail-party circuit or academic seminar.

12.   Striding down the hallways, he pauses often to cock an ear, listening to the sound and pitch of singing voices in classrooms.

13.   Then she paused and cocked an ear toward the dance floor.

14.   In a small army post at Pakovo Selo near the zone, three government soldiers cocked an ear at a news bulletin on national radio.