POCKETBOOK in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for POCKETBOOK, such as:

1. He ate the roll and opened the pocketbook.
2. That car is too expensive for my pocketbook.
3. He replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket.
4. and the count began bustling to get out his pocketbook.
5. The aim was to provide a car for every age and pocketbook.

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 Meanings and Examples of POCKETBOOK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pocketbook
 n.  purse; wallet; pocket-sized paperback book
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  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
2  He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE...
3  On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding evening, and Marius' pocketbook.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
4  He ate the roll and opened the pocketbook.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
5  He replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
6  A leather pocketbook, a purse, in which was evidently a part of the sum which the bandit had received, with a dice box and dice, completed the possessions of the dead man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
7  He left the box and dice where they fell, threw the purse to the wounded man, and eagerly opened the pocketbook.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
8  With rapid, bony fingers he unbuttoned his coat, revealing a shirt, bronze waistcoat buttons, and a watch chain, and quickly pulled out a fat old pocketbook.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 16
9  And he hurriedly took notes for three hundred roubles from his pocketbook, blushing a little.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 21
10  After they had driven over two miles from home, Veslovsky all at once felt for a cigar and his pocketbook, and did not know whether he had lost them or left them on the table.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 8
11  In the pocketbook there were thirty-seven pounds, and so the matter could not be left in uncertainty.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 8
12  and the count began bustling to get out his pocketbook.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII
13  Anatole glanced at him and immediately thrust his hand into his pocket and drew out his pocketbook.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX
14  Danglars was tired and sleepy; he therefore went to bed, placing his pocketbook under his pillow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
15  Holmes examined it for some time, and then, folding it carefully up, he placed it in his pocketbook.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Example Sentence:
1  That car is too expensive for my pocketbook.
2  The aim was to provide a car for every age and pocketbook.
3  Voters don't all realize how much the results could affect their pocketbooks.