COSY in a Sentence

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For COSY, below is one of 13 sentences:
Here, tossed about by the sea, the beginner feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bull's horns.

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 Meanings and Examples of COSY
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cosy
 n.  padded or knitted covering placed especially over a teapot to keep the tea hot; cozy
Classic Sentence:
1  Here, tossed about by the sea, the beginner feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bull's horns.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
2  It is by reason of this cosy blanketing of his body, that the whale is enabled to keep himself comfortable in all weathers, in all seas, times, and tides.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
3  'You can have a nice cosy tea up in your room, my Lady, and Mrs Flint will be more comfortable than if Sir Clifford was there,' said Mrs Bolton.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  On that evening the interior of Blooms-End, though cosy and comfortable, had been rather silent.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
5  You are very happy and cosy in here, you two.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
6  And it is very cosy here, isn't it.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
Example Sentence:
1  Downstairs there's a breakfast room and guests can relax in the cosy bar.
2  Even in the winter with the rain beating down, it's nice and cosy in there.
3  This room is nice and cosy in the winter.
4  The door opened to reveal a cosy little room.
5  The living room was warm and cosy.
6  A teapot under a cosy is stewing, not brewing, the tea.
7  Literally Buddha Place, Boudhanath is a village nestled within the sprawling Nepalese city; even though it's now a part of Kathmandu, it retains the self-contained cosiness of a village.