This time, he selected a piece of charcoal more carefully and, with his pocketknife, scraped its end to a semblance of sharpness.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

Some of these knives are primarily weapons and do not serve the similar purpose as what you would call a small pocketknife.

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Besides the vegetables, they held a piece of bread, a pocketknife, sometimes the Alpine Club guidebook, and always a spool of wire for emergency repairs.

NEWYORKER: Bear Meat

In addition, agents arrested a man after he was able to carry a pocketknife through a security checkpoint manned by Argenbright screeners at Dulles Airport.

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Feels like he dug it out of me with a pocketknife.

NEWYORKER: Idols

Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, said a pocketknife can be just as deadly as a box cutter, like the ones the hijackers used.

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