pocketknife

Example Sentences

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Ward searched through his pockets, pulling out two lighters, and told McWhorter he might have a pocketknife.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023

Diatomite is really strange stuff—you can cut it with a pocketknife or a spade or a chainsaw.

From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2022

With the famously all-purpose mutability of a Swiss pocketknife, ever at the ready, it made manifest the multiple allusions offered in Oldenburg’s art.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2022

Donovan used a pocketknife to free Reverte, then instructed him to get started.

From Slate • May 29, 2021

He led her to a secret place far from the house, whetted his pocketknife on a stone, and cut the offending halter of speech.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck