pocketknife

Example Sentences

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Using the Florida law as an example, perhaps the suspect happens to be carrying a pocketknife.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2024

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

With the famously all-purpose mutability of a Swiss pocketknife, ever at the ready, it made manifest the multiple allusions offered in Oldenburg’s art.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2022

Nico ran, pausing just long enough to grab Reyna’s silver pocketknife from the ground.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan