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Example sentences for "pocketing"

Lexicographically close words:
pocket; pocketbook; pocketbooks; pocketed; pocketful; pocketknife; pockets; pockmarked; pocks; pocky
  1. But as soon as I feels that you pocket a shilling, in the time I take pocketing twopence, the value of your brain ariseth plain before me; and instead of thinking what you says, I does it.

  2. These pocketing nets were set along the tops of the two banks of a gully about twenty yards wide, sloping sharply downward from its top near our trees and with sides three or four yards high and steep.

  3. He raced after them briskly, losing one school, but pocketing another a little farther on and calling to her to come.

  4. When his stocks earned more than that he issued new ones, selling them on 'change and pocketing the difference.

  5. In this pocketing either of the white balls causes two to be deducted from the score, and pocketing the red ball loses three.

  6. He misses those glancing hits which the hard-featured young professional person calls "carroms," and insists on pocketing his own ball instead of the other one.

  7. Always have money in your pocket," replied the doctor, pocketing the last ball, and putting up his cue.

  8. To Mr Holdsworth, quitting a neighbouring hell under more respectable circumstances, pocketing a trifle of what is so easily gained, can, he thinks, be no very great harm.

  9. Helen turned pale to think that the champion of her secret heart was likely to be overcome, and as Squintoff, pocketing the Rowski's money, turned to the noble boy of Godesberg.

  10. I thought so," muttered Raffles, handing me the lantern, and pocketing a bunch of skeleton keys, after tampering for a few minutes with the lock.

  11. An' all easy to prove," said the Scotchman, pocketing the warrant.

  12. I muttered, and pocketing the envelope turned my thoughts to the thing which must next be done.

  13. We adjourned to a cafe and played billiards an hour, and I made six or seven points by the doctor pocketing his ball, and he made as many by my pocketing my ball.

  14. That's about enough of us," said he, pocketing his whistle.

  15. And that was all; he passed in front of me without a threatening or an insolent word, merely pocketing the note as he slouched down the churchyard path.

  16. It would take an entire crown's worth,' said the maid, pocketing the coin.

  17. So, pocketing my dignity, and also pocketing sundry specimens of my mute companions the stones, I mounted into the cabriolet--and lost myself once more in my thoughts till I arrived at the Ferme de Randan.

  18. What between specy circlars, anti-masons, pocketing of bills, (Lord knows what that means!

  19. His logical argument in favor of the pocketing of the Bill to repeal the Specie Circular.

  20. She replaces the tin in the cupboard, which she locks, pocketing the key carefully.

  21. He takes his hat from the floor; rises; and begins pocketing his papers and spectacles.

  22. Timothy was very much pleased at his share of this arrangement, as he seldom brought her the medicine without pocketing half-a-crown.

  23. You are a good fellow, Newland," said the Major, pocketing the money.

  24. It was a boy he said would come," growled the turnkey through the wicket, pocketing the shilling; "so just the boy goes up.

  25. You shall have them back, never fear," said Silk, pocketing the order.

  26. All serene," said King, pocketing the book.

  27. He will regret, I am sure," interrupted the Baron, pocketing the card.

  28. The Prince's hard eyes came round to him swiftly, but not soon enough to see that movement of his right hand that gave him the appearance of deftly pocketing some small object concealed in the palm of it.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pocketing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.