penknife
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The surgeon in the penknife case, who the BBC is not naming, was operating on a patient at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton when he struggled to find a scalpel.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
“Hold me back, hold me back,” yelled Nats pitching coach Jim Hickey, imitating Girardi’s lame attempt to act like a 56-year-old man anxious to duel with a penknife.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
My dad marked the man’s gun by carving his initials with a penknife on the handle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2021
Gather up cardboard, penknife, paste, and calico scraps, and make a dollhouse bed with your kids this holiday week.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2018
In the morning, I sneaked back to the shed and retrieved our belongings—our blankets and books, the flashlight, the penknife, and Alfie.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
The journeys are constructed to echo one another; in each, the voyagers carry “a hipflask, two penknives, matches & candles,” as well as a copy of Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller “Rogue Male.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
All three studies featured a phase in which the two groups competed for scarce resources such as prized penknives.
From Nature ● Apr. 16, 2018
They also have a custom-built two-storey booth complete with a soundproof room for interviews, where I meet the company's CEO Victor Kislyi, who plays with one of the stall's promotional penknives as we talk.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2013
We substitute data transmission, the Internet, and Web services for quill pens, penknives, and illuminated script these days.
From Forbes ● Nov. 9, 2012
At Sikandra, Akbar’s tomb, they gaze at gilded frescoes in the entryway, chipped, ransacked, burned, the gems gouged out with penknives, graffiti etched into the stone.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
