penknife

Example Sentences

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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 one meeting with MCA’s lawyers, Petty’s manager later said, Petty “had a penknife that he got out, opened the penknife and started cleaning his nails.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2017

Gruden is best served not publicly dissecting his quarterback; he learned that after taking apart Griffin’s game with a rusty penknife during one news conference last season.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2015

Mr. Kumana showed him how to scratch a message with a penknife in the delicate skin beneath the hard shell of a coconut.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2014

It wouldn't go inside, he had to get out the ball of string and his penknife, to cut it with, and then tie the anorak on.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill