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Example sentences for "pocketknife"

Lexicographically close words:
pocketbook; pocketbooks; pocketed; pocketful; pocketing; pockets; pockmarked; pocks; pocky; poco
  1. With his pocketknife Kilmeny cut the string that tied the sack.

  2. With his pocketknife he cut eye-holes in the bandanna handkerchief that had been round his neck and tied it over his face in such a way as to conceal his features entirely.

  3. His pocketknife was a serviceable one and he had plenty of physical strength.

  4. But he has my pocketknife and a silver temperance badge.

  5. I want to find out the secret of that valise, and how my pocketknife got into the office, and I shall not rest until I have found out.

  6. In a trice he had out his pocketknife and with it he cut Ralph's bonds.

  7. We found the pocketknife in the building--found it not ten feet from the wrecked safe.

  8. But he gets besides a pocketknife and the broken fountain pen and sits on the bed looking at the things as if they were the most wonderful of gifts.

  9. Werner had his pocketknife open, and it did not take him long to begin operations.

  10. Silently each drew out his pocketknife and opened one of the blades.

  11. The young captain mentioned the fact that Werner had had his pocketknife in his hand.

  12. However, the introduction of the pocketknife changes the situation somewhat.

  13. The pencil and pocketknife fell to the floor.

  14. He cut these open in the palms with his pocketknife and then tied them about the shoes on his horse's hind feet.

  15. And, of course, that same man might get trading stamps from other stores, and with those stamps he could buy a pocketknife through you people, and thus take the sale of that pocketknife away from Mr. Black.

  16. Out came his pocketknife again as he slit the waxed paper of the gelatinous sticks, then inserted the cap in the dynamite.

  17. That Lee did not pull a pocketknife on her.


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