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pocketknife

noun

Definition of pocketknife

as in knife

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Recent Examples of pocketknife Police say Mendez-Marin was found with blood on his clothes and a bloody pocketknife at the scene. — Stepheny Price , Ashley Papa , Elizabeth Pritchett, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026 For carry-on bags, avoid bringing full-size shampoo or other liquids, large gels or aerosols and items like pocketknives in carry-on bags. — ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026 Box cutters, pocketknives, Swiss Army knives, and utility knives can cause a hold-up at security checkpoints, and you won’t be allowed to take them on the plane in your carry-on. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026 Other items found on Mangione or in his bag included a pocketknife, driver’s license, passport, credit cards, AirPods, protein bar, travel toothpaste and flash drives. — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pocketknife

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Noun

The descriptions of the perpetrators, many of whom carried a knife, were often eerily similar; several were roughly the same height, weight and race.

— ProPublica, ProPublica, 14 July 2026
An 18-year-old man accused of using a knife, sword and ax to murder his stepfather was formally charged on Monday.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026

Definition of knife

Noun

Nagamallaiah ran toward the motel office while Cobos-Martinez chased after him with the machete, police have said.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
One of the men who believed the boyfriend had tossed the bottle pulled out a machete and stabbed a relative of the couple.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026

Definition of machete

Noun

Damon can be as crisp an orator as any actor now working, but his performance here reminds you why Jason Bourne, moving stealthily through a crowd like a sheathed dagger, remains one of his defining roles.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Weary of seeing people pick their teeth with daggers, Cardinal Richelieu has knives blunted in royal France.

— New York Times, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Definition of dagger

Noun

If the trade does go through as is, then other questions about the Raptors sprout up — namely, what is to come of RJ Barrett, the 26-year-old switchblade entering the final season of his contract and eligible for an extension this summer.

— Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 July 2026
It’s been a quarter century since the mostly Canadian supergroup New Pornographers sprang from the florid imagination of Carl Newman, a pop savant with an angel’s voice and switchblade wit.

— Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of switchblade

Noun

Back then, students halted studies to pick up rifles, muskets, and bayonets.

— Ira Porter, Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2026
The Continental Army went into the battle with a two-to-one advantage in numbers, but when most of the American militia crumbled in the face of a British bayonet charge, Pumphrey's unit was outnumbered, Wise says.

— Scott Neuman, NPR, 23 June 2026

Definition of bayonet

Noun

The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.

— Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.

— Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024

Definition of cutlass

Noun

Kloss sported a strapless satin gown, pairing it with a matching clutch and stiletto sandals.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 3 July 2026
The $850 style is cut higher on the foot than a low-vamp pump, with a dramatic point, slim 100mm stiletto and small JC emblem at the back.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 30 June 2026

Definition of stiletto

Noun

When the Republican Charles Sumner was struck down by a Southerner on the Senate floor, Raymond’s paper called for armed resistance by pistol, bludgeon, and bowie knife, if necessary.

— Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.

— Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024

Definition of bowie knife

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