How to Use pocket-size in a Sentence

pocket-size

adjective

• Even with an impressive 17 tools to its credit, the pocket-size Gerber Gear Truss more than fits the bill.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• Each day of the week has its own portable, pocket-size case that can be removed from the box and carried on its own for day trips or hikes.
  — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2023
• Dark Painted Woodwork Just off the dining room, Bambi carved out a 7- by 7-foot space for a pocket-size library.
  — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 23 Aug. 2023
• One church staffer presses a Bible to her forehead while another daubs her stomach with a pocket-size vial of holy oil.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• The Yoga qualifies as an ultraportable at 2.76 pounds; its AC adapter is a pocket-size plug.
  — Eric Grevstad, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
• This pocket-size version can easily fit into their gym bag or carry-on for on-the-go relief.
  — Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2023
• Like several other pocket-size displays, this one could serve as a rough draft for bigger, deeper shows to come.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• Arise Chicago staff has been encouraging people to keep a copy of the toolkit on hand, whether printed out and taped across the inside of the door or a pocket-size card for easy access.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
• There are a number of them available on Amazon, but this pocket-size version is a best-seller, even among firefighters.
  — Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
• That’s precisely why this new variety of cinema has come to the fore—not to concede movies to the pocket-size travelling show but to reclaim them from it.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
• That’s precisely why this new variety of cinema has come to the fore—not to concede movies to the pocket-size travelling show but to reclaim them from it.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
• As the ship careers out of control, Osha reaches beyond the bars of her prison for her pocket-size personal droid assistant, Pip.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• No need to fumble around with a mess of cords—this slim, pocket-size power bank snaps onto the back of any MagSafe-compatible smartphone to charge the battery wirelessly.
  — Joni Sweet, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• While this laundry bag and portable washing machine might bring backpacking to mind, the ultra-light bag that packs down to a pocket-size square can be handy indoors, too.
  — Molly Harris, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
• Nearby, an older woman who was resting on a bench handed me a pocket-size edition of the Zohar, from the Kabbalah Centre.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• Today, pocket-size family farmsteads on the canyon floor, often tucked against sheer walls, coexist with the ancient ruins and rock art.
  — Derek M. Norman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
• Today, pocket-size family farmsteads on the canyon floor, often tucked against sheer walls, coexist with the ancient ruins and rock art.
  — Derek M. Norman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
• Google, Motorola and others are trying folding or flip phones that offer more screen real estate in a pocket-size phone.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• The 160-page, pocket-size book — which in customary Michelin style includes a detachable city map — signals the growing stature of Detroit in the tourism industry.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
• The 160-page, pocket-size book — which in customary Michelin style includes a detachable city map — signals the growing stature of Detroit in the tourism industry.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
• However, this pocket-size stain remover can help remove stains in seconds by using a microfiber pad that lifts and absorbs them to leave your clothes looking brand new.
  — Casey Clark, Peoplemag, 8 July 2023
• The pocket-size device is actually a Bluetooth speaker that looks great on a desk or bookshelf and ensures their jams are always playing.
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
• The pocket-size device is actually a Bluetooth speaker that looks great on a desk or bookshelf and ensures their jams are always playing.
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
• In no hurry, the former Dean Street boy peruses the tables, lifts up a curiosity, a pocket-size paperback of Melville’s Redburn with an evocative sketch of a sailor.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• This book is a pocket-size pep talk for high-achieving and aspiring individuals.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
• This planner is available in three different sizes, including a pocket-size version.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 14 June 2024
• The session grew raucous as some members waved pocket-size copies of the U.S. Constitution and suggested that the plan violated the country’s founding principles.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• While many people just walk by the rectangular openings in the sidewalk from which the trees spring — or, worse, use the spaces as trash cans and doggy litter boxes — others lay claim, unofficially, to these pocket-size patches of land.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The pocket-size Mini is a slightly narrower and smaller version of CobraHead’s original weeder and is better at handling precise jobs and tight areas.
  — Ebony Roberts, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
• Here's what to know about the pocket-size tequilas.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025