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
It would be much easier going than trying to hack his way through shrubbery with a pocketknife.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
Or, they exempted pocketknives, Bea said — meaning, in his estimation, that they would not justify a modern ban on a butterfly knife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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
The agency wanted to let passengers keep pocketknives with foldable blades shorter than 2.36 inches long and 0.5 inches wide.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
But they also talked about games at recess, and friends who shared candy at lunchtime or loaned them pocketknives to carve with.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
