How to Use penknife in a Sentence

penknife

noun

• The boys were getting ready to board a bus to a game when two small penknives and a lighter were found in their gear.
  — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 2018-05-02
• To Safeco Field for making me check my small penknife at the gate.
  — Seattle Times Readers, The Seattle Times, 2017-06-18
• In one instance he was charged with stabbing a fellow gambler in the abdomen with a penknife.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2019-12-18
• In this sense a penknife is no different from some very complicated factory machine.
  — Vladimir Nabokov, The New Yorker, 2019-11-08
• Murray gave his approval, and Phipps began the painstaking process of excavating, starting with a brush and a penknife.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 2017-07-29
• One cold day, inspired by Prince's ability to run nimbly over a sheet of ice and snow without slipping, Sperry used a penknife to carve cuts into a rubber outsole that mimicked the grooves on his dog’s paws.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 2017-08-08