pocketknife

Example Sentences

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When he saw that Phillips was putting away a pocketknife, he said, he felt betrayed.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Ward searched through his pockets, pulling out two lighters, and told McWhorter he might have a pocketknife.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023

Tamariz showed him a trick: a color-changing pocketknife.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 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

Warren was sitting on a box with his pocketknife and a whetstone and looked up, startled, as they came.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell