pocketknife
Example Sentences
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The 9th Circuit panel found that the state had failed to prove they were either of those things, with Bea writing that they are “simply a pocketknife with an extra rotating handle.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023
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
My mother was always afraid I’d fall off the sea wall, or tumble out of a tree, or cut myself with a pocketknife.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
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