pocketknife

Example Sentences

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It’s got its cheese, its banks, its mountains, its neutrality, its watches, its pocketknives and its chocolate.

From Los Angeles Times

A few nights ago, Amersi, who has long worked overnight, arrived at about 2 a.m., and a man who was sleeping outside took out a pocketknife and threatened him.

From Los Angeles Times

My colleague developed a technique of cutting blocks with his chainsaw, and then the rest of us would sit around with our field pocketknives and split them.

From Scientific American

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

She would lock herself in the bathroom and sleep on the floor at night while holding a pocketknife for protection, her lawyers wrote.

From Washington Post