Pocketknife

"Pocketknife" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The knife was so dull that I couldn't cut the meat with it and I had to use my pocketknife.

Perhaps this pocketknife will come in handy someday.

Tom managed to cut himself while trying to open a bag of peanuts with his pocketknife.

I always carry a small pocketknife.

Tom pulled out his pocketknife and opened it.

Do you have a pocketknife I can borrow?

Tom used his pocketknife to cut the rope.

Tom usually carries a pocketknife.

I sharpened my pencil with my pocketknife.

I still have that pocketknife you gave me.

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Jimmy had a pocketknife, and he wandered into the drawing-room with it one day, alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture to an indeterminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour.

The Army, the Navy, the Maritime Commission, and Lend-Lease demanded more and more pocketknives — for demolition kits, medical kits, aviators’ kits, electricians’ kits; knives with tools, knives with marlin spikes. The pocketknife attained a new status — as indispensable equipment for all men in uniform.

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