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
Voepel told authorities she and Aldrich did not have any weapons aside from Aldrich’s folding pocketknife.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Diatomite is really strange stuff—you can cut it with a pocketknife or a spade or a chainsaw.
From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2022
Donovan used a pocketknife to free Reverte, then instructed him to get started.
From Slate • May 29, 2021
A kind of city-street music where laughter belies anxiety, and joy is as short and straight as the blade of a pocketknife.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
