pocketknife
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“We were given a free pocketknife during our trainings, and I had that pocketknife on me, so I was able to cut her out of her seatbelt,” he said in a phone interview on Saturday.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
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
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
He also placed his hand puppets on wall-mounted boxes and ordered his collection of daggers and pocketknives just so.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It’s got its cheese, its banks, its mountains, its neutrality, its watches, its pocketknives and its chocolate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
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 ● Sep. 13, 2022
There are hoodies, sneakers, and off-the-wall branded goods, from pocketknives to fire extinguishers.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 28, 2016
When Gibby called at eleven forty-five, Michael was making a list of things he needed to add to the stash, like cereal, powdered milk, and two pocketknives.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
