1.   The little dog looked up and cocked its ears.

2.   Cocked an ear.

3.   Columbia is careful to keep an ear cocked to the servants who otherwise go unnoticed in the city apartments and country homes of some of the richest New Yorkers.

4.   Cock an ear toward the next table and hear a deal being struck.

5.   Cocking one ear toward the answering machine, she apologized.

6.   Earnest men with clipboards then took their positions in the center and cocked their ears toward the thrushes as they struck up their tunes.

7.   He cocked his ear to the tales of economic worry, and he whapped their softball queries with infobites taken from his standard stump speech.

8.   He cocks an ear and keeps on munching.

9.   Holed up in a New Hampshire hotel suite with his wife and political allies pacing about, Sen. Bob Dole cocked an ear to Dave Carney.

10.   I cock an ear to catch the next unholy yelp, but there is only the plop of plump raindrops soaking the campground from the leafy bows above.