pocketknife
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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
He had no criminal record and was carrying only a two-inch pocketknife at Twin Peaks.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
My mother was always afraid I’d fall off the sea wall, or tumble out of a tree, or cut myself with a pocketknife.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
He also placed his hand puppets on wall-mounted boxes and ordered his collection of daggers and pocketknives just so.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Or, they exempted pocketknives, Bea said — meaning, in his estimation, that they would not justify a modern ban on a butterfly knife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
My colleague developed a technique of cutting blocks with his chainsaw, and then the rest of us would sit around with our field pocketknives and split them.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2022
There are hoodies, sneakers, and off-the-wall branded goods, from pocketknives to fire extinguishers.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 28, 2016
But they also talked about games at recess, and friends who shared candy at lunchtime or loaned them pocketknives to carve with.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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