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How to use pocket in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Pocket means a bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. Example: “I paid for it out of my own pocket.”

Examples of pocket by meaning

nounA bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.

  • “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC...

nounA person's financial resources.

  • I paid for it out of my own pocket.
  • There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.2012, Simon Heffer, “In Fagin's Footsteps”, in Literary Review, section 403

nounAn enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

  • The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
  • She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

nounThe area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc....

  • For many years, the popular belief among NFL analysts was that the success of an NFL team comes with a quarterback who can stand tall in the pocket and deliver the ball downfield.2014 June 20, Gregor Bozic, "Ramblings: Classic Pocket Passers versus Mobile Quarterbacks", Football Outsiders
  • With some notable exceptions, NFL teams that are successful on dropbacks outside the pocket have tended to win more games2019 Dec. 6, Josh Hermsmeyer, "Teams Are Excelling when Their QBs Leave the Pocket. Can that Continue?", FiveThirtyEight
  • The Pocket Area is the area between the outside edges of the normal tackle positions on each side of the center extending backward to the offensive team's end line.2021, Official Playing Rules of the National Football League, §26: Pocket Area

nounA state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.

  • in the pocket

verbTo take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).

  • Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
  • The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
  • The store manager, a woman in her 50s, saw Sasaki pocket the condoms and detained him at the entrance to the store, while another employee called police.2023, 85-year-old man arrested for stealing condoms from convenience store

adjectiveOf a size suitable for putting into a pocket.

  • a pocket dictionary

adjectiveSmaller or more compact than usual.

  • She came into the apartment like a pocket hurricane.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

More sentences with pocket

  • You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.From the entry name
  • The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.From the entry amount
  • The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.From the entry angle
  • He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife.From the entry rat
  • He fluked the other red into the middle pocket, despite the double kiss.From the entry fluke
  • Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter.From the entry lighter
  • There was a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet.From the entry bulge
  • The brigade succeeded in breaking out of the pocket and reunited with friendly forces.From the entry break out
  • A scorecard and a short pencil were tucked into his breast pocket.From the entry scorecard
  • The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down.From the entry jaws
  • Noticing the fiver that fell out his friend's pocket, he was reluctant to behave immorally.From the entry immorally
  • The shot needs to be slightly thicker than half-ball to get to the center pocket.From the entry half-ball
  • We need an investor with deep pockets to help us get our invention to market.From the entry deep pockets
  • Many high school students get cash in hand jobs for extra pocket money.From the entry cash in hand
  • Remember to turn on the keyguard before you put the phone in your pocket.From the entry keyguard
  • He reached into his pocket and pulled out, of all things, an ice cream cone.From the entry of all things
  • I had a bit of cash on me, but no pocket change.From the entry pocket change
  • The cost of an opulent wedding is pocket change to a millionaire.From the entry pocket change
  • Got the new pocket nappy OTB! Let's see if this one lasts the night.From the entry OTB
  • He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.From the entry fish
  • An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.From the entry condense
  • His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.From the entry kiss
  • The suspected thief was requested to empty her pockets.From the entry empty
  • The coins were chinking in his pocket.From the entry chink
  • My friends and I saw a soldier questioning a man holding a bag with a gun in his pocket.From the entry soldier
  • He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.From the entry jack-knife

Meaning of pocket

  1. noun A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
  2. noun A person's financial resources.
  3. noun An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.

Full definition of pocket

Questions about pocket in a sentence

How do you use pocket in a sentence?
Pocket is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “I paid for it out of my own pocket.”
What is a short sentence with pocket?
“a pocket dictionary”
What does pocket mean?
Pocket means a bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pocket (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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