Example Sentences

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In one case, officers used pen caps and pocketknives to place suspected contraband into the drug test kits, instead of using a clean loading device.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2023

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

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