penknife
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My dad marked the man’s gun by carving his initials with a penknife on the handle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2021
Gather up cardboard, penknife, paste, and calico scraps, and make a dollhouse bed with your kids this holiday week.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2018
In one meeting with MCA’s lawyers, Petty’s manager later said, Petty “had a penknife that he got out, opened the penknife and started cleaning his nails.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2017
Gruden is best served not publicly dissecting his quarterback; he learned that after taking apart Griffin’s game with a rusty penknife during one news conference last season.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2015
Digory’s hand was shaking as he opened his penknife and cut out a long strip of turf on the bank of the pool.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
The journeys are constructed to echo one another; in each, the voyagers carry “a hipflask, two penknives, matches & candles,” as well as a copy of Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller “Rogue Male.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
They began excavating the ceratopsian with penknives and brushes.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
All three studies featured a phase in which the two groups competed for scarce resources such as prized penknives.
From Nature ● Apr. 16, 2018
We substitute data transmission, the Internet, and Web services for quill pens, penknives, and illuminated script these days.
From Forbes ● Nov. 9, 2012
In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.
From "1984" by George Orwell
