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pocket

adjective as in relatively small, portable

noun as in cavity, pouch

verb as in help oneself to something

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Place your properly folded mask inside the bag and slip the bag into a pocket while you take a quick mask break.

Worn down and chipped from frequent handling, these figurines look like they might have been carried around in pockets or bags.

It’s great fuel, and I can cram it in a ski-jacket pocket and eat it on the lift.

Why can’t this be a superpower that every developer has in their pocket.

On every trip that involves wildlife, I have a secret urge to pocket the animals and take them home.

I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

It had a wide brim and a tall crown, which created an insulated pocket of air and could also be used to carry water.

This leaves thousands of women at companies across the United States left to pay out of pocket for their birth control.

One African American woman brandished a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution while marching.

Being dapper is all about attention to detail, like sporting a perfectly tucked handkerchief in your suit pocket.

The young man smiled at the girl, as he crushed up the notes and stuffed them into his pocket.

Down in his galleries and chambers where it was dark as a pocket Grandfather Mole enjoyed himself thoroughly.

Absently his hands wandered through the pockets, and found his purse and the money in an outside pocket.

“Of course we know it, sir,” rejoined Fogg, slapping his pocket—perhaps by accident.

Thinking it was a request for employment which he could not offer, Malcolm stuffed it carelessly into a pocket.

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On this page you'll find 120 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pocket, such as: pocket-size, pocket-sized, portable, small, abridged, and canned.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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