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How to use penknife in a sentence

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One man suffered penknife stab wounds to his back and another was hit around the head with a snooker cue.
Pulling out a small penknife from her pocket, she opened it and pushed the thin blade into the small gap at the bottom of the window.
Taking a penknife from his combat belt he flicked out the knife and prised out the device.
The stash he keeps in his pockets include string, a penknife, matches, a chunk of crystal, a broken watch, a whistle, and countless other things.
I took the rucksack off and managed to unzip the top pocket with one hand to get the penknife out.
Of the two kinds of jade, jadeite and nephrite, the former is harder than the latter and cannot be scratched with a penknife blade.
Recently my brother was boarding a plane to Spain when he found he'd forgotten to remove a heavy-duty penknife from his pocket.
Early in the morning of November 12, the day he was to be hanged, he cut his throat with a penknife and died seven days later.
Granted, it was a penknife, but it was far more capable of doing damage than my shaving cream.
How is it that passengers boarding Canadian flights can't take a penknife on board, but postal packages flow into the hold virtually uninspected?
LouisĀ  lost an eye as a child when he stumbled while sharpening a stick with his penknife.
One of the first was a potato cut in half, with the writing and logo carved out with a penknife.
Words were scraped away with a penknife or inserted carefully in the lines of text, and then listed in an errata paragraph to attest that the approved document was unaltered.
As long as a single individual feels justified in firing a missile, or planting a bomb, or wielding a penknife, terror will never be totally defeated.
The masonry is so finely worked that a penknife blade cannot be fitted into the cracks, and windows or niches are trapezoid to counteract gravity in a quake.
He's carrying a rucksack and all these little plastic bags and a penknife.
Free gift of a multipurpose penknife, a karabiner with a compass and a decorative ice axe.
Without further ado he took out his penknife and carved a hole in the sole of each sneaker to give his overheated feet some relief.
His appetite for inventions went back to his childhood, when he had devised a fork and spoon that could fit into a penknife.
Let's worry more about making sure that when the Problem of Evil appears in a first-grade classroom, it is armed with a penknife.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Commissary of police yawns more wearily than before, secretary disdains to use his pen, seizes his penknife and pares his nails.
She shut the penknife which lay upon the table, and put it into her pocket.
It was made by his own hands with a penknife during the hours allotted to him for rest.
The wood is placed upon the bench, and the joint marked out by using a marking knife or penknife blade and the try square.
Once when Drury cut his thumb with a penknife he fainted at the sight of his own blood!
He then asked me for my penknife and proceeded to unrip the bag, and took out of it a large piece of paper closely folded up.
Henry would have given his penknife not to have written that essay.
With his penknife he slit the envelope open, and looked inside.
And with the point of a penknife she pulled out the little leaden shot.
As he spoke he drew a little penknife from his pocket, opened the smaller blade, and moved his chair so that I could see his thigh.
He has blunted the blade of his penknife and broken the point off by sticking that instrument into his desk in every direction.
Deftly twirling the penknife, Bethune bored a neat hole in the leather.
Cut off as much of it as is soft with a penknife or scissors.
The husband mused and twirled his penknife between a finger and thumb.
Do not you remember his cutting his finger with your new penknife, and your recommending courtplaister?
And even when he had done all that, and had gone all round the jack-towel, he took out his penknife and scraped the case out of his nails before he put his coat on.
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