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

He had no criminal record and was carrying only a two-inch pocketknife at Twin Peaks.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022

The dispatcher asked whether it was a pocketknife.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2021

My only knife, except my pocketknife, was in the cave.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien