POCKET in a Sentence

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260 example sentences for POCKET, such as:

1. I kept the list in my breast pocket.
2. I saw you put the key in your pocket.
3. He'll probably find himself in pocket in a good year.
4. She had put her watch in her pocket for safe keeping.
5. If I've got money in my pocket, I tend to fritter it away.

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 Meanings and Examples of POCKET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pocket
 n.  a container, usually made of cloth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We have, each of us in his pocket, five or six millions in diamonds; you are more clever than I; you must go and bring Miss Cunegonde from Buenos Ayres.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
2  He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow paper, which he unfolded.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
3  As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
4  There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
5  The public writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the wine-shop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
6  Javert seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began to write.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7  Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled some figures.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
8  Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin without saying a word, and put it in that pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
9  While thus bent over, she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into the spring.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
10  Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
11  Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
12  Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and rolled aside.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  Thenardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
14  The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the table.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
15  She did not know what a gold piece was; she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though she had stolen it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  I saw you put the key in your pocket.
17  I kept the list in my breast pocket.
18  No matter you have that pocket or not , I'll be with you forever.
19  The CD player is light enough to carry around in your pocket.
20  He'll probably find himself in pocket in a good year.
21  Even before he plunges into his program, he has his audience in his pocket.
22  She had put her watch in her pocket for safe keeping.
23  Please read the safety leaflet in the seat pocket in front of you.
24  If I've got money in my pocket, I tend to fritter it away.
25  He had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.
26  They predict that the majority of internet connections will be by mobile communication devices closer to pocket computers than portable telephones.
27  Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket, and read out in a sort of official, nasal voice:-- "I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October."
28  Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits.
29  They predict that the vast majority of internet connections will be by mobile communication devices closer to pocket computers than portable telephones.
30  Flora covered him with her pocket handkerchief, which she called a blanket, and tried to wait patiently for him to finish his nap.