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    1. Schulz takes a stone out of his pocket and places it on the stack


    2. He pulled out a thin glove from his pocket and put it on his hand, pressing the glove against the door and listening


    3. He slipped the computer into his pocket and headed for the stairs leading into the basement


    4. “You must have dropped it while the gravity was shifting back to normal,” Johnny commented, putting the Chip back in his pocket


    5. He wheeled his nervous mount around and had his pocket eye in his hand as soon as the thunder died away


    6. She took the device away from her ear and slipped it back into her pocket


    7. Peter had some money in his coat pocket all of a sudden, though the change had fallen through the hole at the bottom and had spilled out all over the sidewalk


    8. John reaches in his pocket for his wallet


    9. " He slipped his phone back into his pocket


    10. He pulled it out of his pocket and the caller ID made him freeze

    11. He replaced the phone to his waistcoat pocket and looked up to see a man in his late 50s, heavy-set, bald with back and sides graying hair and a friendly if canny look on his face


    12. Once the shiny Audi was out of sight he made his heavy way back into the station and fished an old battered phone from his pocket and selected a speed dial number that picked up quickly


    13. ramshackle collection of maybe 100 tin shacks clustered in the desert between a pocket of towering rock mountains


    14. I let it go to voice-mail but the phone was no sooner silenced and back in my pocket than it was vibrating again


    15. imagination, preferring the simple sureties of cash in his pocket and the reassurance of


    16. The sound of footsteps coming towards the kitchen rouses her and she frantically tries to pull herself together, groping in the pocket of her jeans for a tissue


    17. Theo returned the badge to his pocket


    18. ’ He said, digging out a clean hanky from his pocket and wiping my eyes with it


    19. I ended the call and put the phone back in my pocket


    20. his jacket pocket, wiped first his brow and then his glasses, and then finally, and with

    21. Theo held up his two small, delicate hands to show he was unarmed before reaching into his inside pocket with fingertips to take out his ID


    22. He fishes in his pocket, finds his card, lays it on the table


    23. He put the neatly embellished square back into his pocket


    24. Theo's phone buzzed in his pocket


    25. waited for the stars, with a bottle of cheap hooch in his pocket, the moon would rise,


    26. He’s holding me far too close to conceal how he feels successfully … unless he has something large in his trouser pocket which I don’t know about


    27. " I struggled to get the bundle from my pocket and then handed him the envelope stuffed with exactly sixty €50 notes


    28. She pulled the You out of her pocket and hesitated


    29. Kandhi grabbed it and stuffed it in her pocket


    30. "Yes," I struggled with the wads of cash in my coat pocket, "it's everything we have sir

    31. Without unfolding the message, I stuffed it into my trouser pocket, and then, frantically, I rubbed the mirror down with my towel, smearing a thin layer of wax everywhere


    32. He seemed to be taking much longer about his duties this morning while I felt as though I had a piece of phosphorus in my trouser pocket


    33. I lay on the cot with my back to the door and fished the piece of paper out of my trouser pocket


    34. He pulled me closer to him with his left arm, while fishing a piece of paper out of his trouser pocket with his right


    35. Blaise had only a short frown, brought a flask of native serum out of a pocket in his loose bottomed pantaloons


    36. The desk and pocket systems differ only in the size of the crystal ball and keys


    37. The little man, who looked to all intents and purposes like a fifty-year old accounts clerk, the sort of man who is equally hen-pecked and ignored because his entire being is made up of nothing but disappointment, pulled a red handkerchief from his jacket pocket, wiped first his brow and then his glasses, and then finally, and with an almighty bulge, he blew his nose


    38. The accountant shrugged his shoulders, took a packet of low tar cigarettes from his jacket pocket and offered one to his companion, who shook his head


    39. The creature withdrew his right hand from his jacket pocket to reveal a slender, grey-brown paw, talons gleaming like black diamonds in the moonlight


    40. He had a few pennies in his pocket, enough to sleep in a barn perhaps and buy a small piece of cooked meat and some potato

    41. Reluctantly, Iain stowed his letter in his trouser pocket and, smiling in a friendly fashion, led the way to the car


    42. back inside his shirt pocket


    43. Joe took the Travel Device out of his pocket and handed it over


    44. The second messenger bird appeared just as she was folding this up and stowing it in her pocket


    45. with dust collecting in the button pocket shadows,


    46. aligned, each with a pocket of life within


    47. Cosmicblasto reached into his shirt pocket and took out the


    48. at this notes that he had retrieved from his pocket


    49. Cosmicblasto took the Travel Device out of his shirt pocket and


    50. The hands on his pocket watch














































    1. a cold copper in my hot pocketed hand, I watched the man


    2. To make things run as smoothly as he could, the businessman bought the cottage from the couple, which, given that they never had a mortgage in the first place, meant that they pocketed a tidy little sum


    3. pocketed the phone, called up to the old woman once again and she


    4. had a mortgage in the first place, meant that they pocketed a tidy


    5. Moving off again, he pocketed the mobile


    6. He waited while the other man hit the off key and pocketed the device, then reached out to activate the recording machine on the table


    7. Truthfully I was not over joyed at the item as my main focus was to bid and buy the more beautiful watches that had gone for far more than I had been wiling to pay, but I pocketed the item and left to find my car


    8. The short man with honey-blond hair met the tall Nord just outside the city walls with a fresh stallion, and eagerly pocketed the shimmering coins in return


    9. Brynjolf sighed and reached in the bag to produce some coins for the Argonian man, who eagerly pocketed the gold


    10. “Understood! And most certainly!” The reptilian man hungrily snatched away the few extra coins and pocketed them with another leering grin

    11. Not one to ever let an as yet unclaimed piece of gold lie idle and unattended, he picked it up and pocketed it - but not before noting that it too had been facing heads-up


    12. After a moment of silence, he cleared his throat and pocketed the card


    13. She grabbed one of Larocka’s discards from the waste bin and pocketed it; later, she might need to emulate that writing to send a note to Hollowcrest


    14. Think of that! Bob had but fifteen "bob" a week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost


    15. Fritz pocketed the winning ball


    16. The phantom board pocketed his


    17. Tony pocketed the digits,


    18. Very slowly he pocketed it, rose to his feet, opened the door to the empty waiting room


    19. Kenichi pocketed his phone


    20. Kenichi pocketed his phone and went into Suzuki’s office

    21. AJ meanwhile had managed to track a dealer down who wanted £50 a wrap but he got him down to £45 and pocketed the rest


    22. wondered if anyone would notice if she pocketed the deluxe items


    23. pocketed the candles as well as the miniature box of matches that


    24. Drivers license and pocketed it, thinking she could send it back to


    25. they pocketed those beers


    26. ” Dilimon explained, then pocketed the ring again as Theramin concluded his itinerary


    27. At breakfast Charly handed him her check and he pocketed it without looking, shrugging into his jacket and running out into the cold


    28. He pocketed the weapon thinking that it could be quite useful in the future


    29. Eva pocketed the note and ran her fingers through her hair again


    30. He sold national resources cheap, pocketed the majority of

    31. from Charlie’s robes, and pocketed it


    32. Restadicus pocketed the glass in his robe for later research


    33. “When they were outside I sent up a bindle with my number but some faggot pocketed it


    34. Jon pocketed the weapon and I tapped Bob where it would hurt


    35. He locked the cabinet drawer again, pocketed the key, and took a small tub of tablets from the second drawer, which he opened, revealing brown tablets


    36. She was a bit older than him and his landlady, so Chris pocketed his libido and complimented her on her looks


    37. He searched through it frantically till he found the coin, pocketed it, then stuffed Nick’s wallet back in his coat


    38. He paid her, pocketed his change, then took the drinks back over to the table


    39. He pocketed the phone as he ran up the path and knocked on the Jute’s front door


    40. As soon as I pocketed the cash they all started questioning me as they had seen me do it in plain sight

    41. He pocketed both envelopes and trotted off to deliver the in-coming mail from the previous evening


    42. I pocketed it


    43. offered to translate the kanji, he pocketed it, and said it


    44. No doubt a hefty discount would have been pocketed


    45. He took the pouch and pocketed it, dismissing it from his mind as Sergeant Wang silently appeared behind him


    46. She pocketed them in her utility belt and said, “I discovered trackers planted inside the wings


    47. A man’s face hovered above her, scarred and pocketed with acne


    48. Tomi took the data chip held by Boran and looked at it for a few seconds, then pocketed it


    49. He waited a few minutes, in order to let enough time for the girl raped by Beria to escape, then passed his right arm outside and fired one bullet skyward, careful to catch the ejected brass casing, which he pocketed


    50. Nancy then pocketed back the order while looking down with contempt at Hirohito













































    1. At one point, after pocketing their money and their komboloi beads, they performed a remarkable piece of coordinated percussion by tapping their feet and fingertips on the table tops in time to a tune hummed by Zacharias, their Sophian eyes a-shining


    2. ’ He said pocketing the keys


    3. ‘Look at the blister on your finger,’ the shrink said whilst pocketing the lighter, ‘if there are still doubts


    4. Terry wiped his hand on the grass and stood up, pocketing his knife


    5. Crossing to a stainless steel trolley, he dug out some sterile dressings, quickly pocketing them


    6. billion aid program has been accused of pocketing about $145,000 for steering contracts to the brother in


    7. "Thank you," I reply, while pocketing the two tablets


    8. When this young “relative” returned several months later, richer by far by pocketing most of the excessive funding for his travels, he presented my father with his massive collection of photographs


    9. Pocketing the item, Taher faced the direction that Morgan had come from


    10. Pocketing the tiny box, she entered the hallway

    11. heard many, many success stories from real estate investors pocketing $100,000 to $500,000 or


    12. ‘What’s a husband’s definition of safe sex?’ Watkin starts, pocketing his excellent winnings


    13. Her hand flying up at a lightning speed, she grabbed back her passport and then took one step back while pocketing quickly her passport


    14. Retrieving and pocketing her Lebanese passport and her wallet, which were contained in water-tight plastic bags, Farah then armed herself, finally slinging the small haversack containing her satellite telephone, her GPS locator unit and spare ammunition


    15. Pocketing back his radio, Erik then resumed his observation of the fleeing cargo ship


    16. Thinking about something, she went to the nose compartment containing her gun camera and took the film out of it, pocketing it


    17. Taking out the film cassette of her gun camera and pocketing it, she left orders with her ground crew to service and check her P-38NC, then elected to walk all the way to her headquarters building, 300 meters away, in order to wind down and stretch her legs


    18. “Sure, mademoiselle!” Said the boy, pocketing quickly the coin and then grabbing two big bags Nancy was pulling out of the cart


    19. - Pocketing: Here again, I will generalize this to be any situation where the


    20. anything remaining is handled the way we would under pocketing

    21. When pocketing, our limitation will be the smallest inside radius we have to


    22. Storing back in place the camera and pocketing the pen, Ingrid next sucked in some water and nutrient from the tubes inside her helmet


    23. ‘I haven’t seen you play,’ said Sandhya, watching him in wonderment as he went on a pocketing spree, ‘half as well at Kothalanka


    24. The choice thus boils down to picking up your share of the loot or gaping at those pocketing it


    25. Pocketing the card, she bid Gerald farewell


    26. She stood in a small courtyard of hard-packed earth, she slipped her cloak off and pocketing the brooch she threw the cloak over the chestnut’s withers


    27. It had been a fun night and I had ended up pocketing some great tips for the night


    28. He held it for a moment, rubbing his thumb over the cover before pocketing it


    29. And the taxi-driver who brought her from Paddington had hardly done pocketing his money when there she was again, and he was taking her somewhere else


    30. Finally he wrapped it up and came back to the kitchen’s entrance, pocketing his phone

    31. Baines stood, checked the wad again before pocketing it,


    32. I read all the uninteresting details of his political lack of spine vis-à-vis the English overlords, of his pocketing of commissions on every national deal, of his purchase of defective arms which caused the 1948 defeat of Egypt at the hands of the newly created state of Israel


    33. After pocketing the offending ticket, Loofah surveyed the carriage without much interest


    34. After pocketing what little coins he had on him, she pulled his backpack from beside him and wondered at how light it was


    35. "Oh, let us have no gestures, no screams, no modern drama, or you will oblige me to tell you that I see Debray leave here, pocketing the whole of the 500,000 livres you have handed over to him this year, while he smiles to himself, saying that he has found what the most skilful players have never discovered—that is, a roulette where he wins without playing, and is no loser when he loses


    36. —I propose, our hero eventually suggested after mature reflection while prudently pocketing her photo, as it's rather stuffy here you just come home with me and talk things over


    37. When he saw prisoners violating the rules by eating vegetables in the garden area, or pocketing mussels at low tide outside the camp, he talked the guards into looking the other way


    38. I rose and inspected the sacks, pocketing a few choice beans as souvenirs


    39. For most people, this is a natural and intuitive concept: buying something relatively cheaply, planning to sell it later for a higher price, and pocketing the difference (minus any costs of financing or insurance incurred in the interim)


    40. Pocketing the condom, the writer stood, picked up the coffee carafe

    41. Garvey thought that white America was so deeply prejudiced that black Americans would be better off moving back to Africa and he collected a lot of money to finance his ‘Republic of Africa’, until it turned out he’d been pocketing it, which rather ruined his image


    42. "Waterloo!" growled Thenardier, pocketing the five hundred


    43. When he was only six years old, Warren Buffett purchased six-packs of Coca-Cola from his grandfather's grocery store for twenty five cents and resold each of the bottles for five cents, pocketing a five cent profit


    44. Water was then lowered down to them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were tossed after it; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing it, the Captain returned to the quarter-deck


    45. " Notts vous rendons," said the latter, pocketing the rouble ; aad turning to the door with a perfectly unmoved and serious face, he proceeded to kick it with his huge coarse boot and without the faintest sign of ill-hiimour


    1. Schulz put his hands into his pockets


    2. ” He shoved his hands in his pockets, then went to the end of the block to play pachinko


    3. He tucks his hands into the pockets of his overcoat, pulling it tight upon his shoulders


    4. Thrusting his hands into his jacket pockets so that he could


    5. jacket pockets, the hood low over his forehead


    6. Danton stood perfectly still, his hands thrust into his coat pockets, staring straight


    7. "The atmosphere is isolated into pockets


    8. The creature reached his full height and girth, his hands stuffed into deep jacket pockets, the hood low over his forehead


    9. Device safe in the deep pockets of Joes’ long coat


    10. hands shoved deep into their pockets for warmth

    11. in his pockets whilst he accepted the Travel Device off Joe


    12. balls out of the pockets in his britches


    13. TONY-LEE puts his hands into his pockets


    14. He was proud to show his lifetime souvenirs; they fell from books, wallets, tin boxes and jacket pockets


    15. The wind was sharpening now so I shoved my hands into my pockets and quickened my pace, darting about and skimming round the corners and making good headway till I turned a corner and almost ran into a large woman chopping wood right in my path


    16. Needless to say he stuffed every one of his jacket pockets with the cash


    17. Being thoroughly practical and having been trained to deal with difficult situations, the soldier put the dog back by the cash machine and proceeded to empty all of his pockets and his trouser legs of ten and twenty-pound notes


    18. We dug into our pockets for contributions to the bill whilst Mercouri heaved himself upright and made a loud announcement,


    19. Annie sighed, stuck her hands in her coat pockets and followed her brother along Barlow Moor Road towards the offices of Dawson, Dawson & Dawson, chosen by their father in happier times because he could always be sure of remembering the name of his solicitor when exceptional circumstances required the expertise of a legal beagle


    20. Simon immediately goes to where he threw his jacket and dives into one of the pockets

    21. pockets and grabbed my groin twice to check


    22. Mama reached into Ish's pockets


    23. his jacket pockets with the cash


    24. machine and proceeded to empty all of his pockets and his trouser


    25. into the soldier’s overall pockets, took out the mobile phone and


    26. The rain has stopped now, though it’s still cold and raw and I ram my hands into my pockets to keep them warm


    27. ‘Yes, though it might make more sense to keep it for the autumn, Dave, finishing just before Christmas – people tend to read more in the autumn and would be more willing to put their hands in their pockets for a good cause at Christmas


    28. about one thing, and that is lining THEIR pockets with YOUR money


    29. She hooked her thumbs in her jean pockets and faced the wall, where there were pictures of Brownie and his parents and relatives


    30. He rushed over to the bush and patted the pockets

    31. had emptied their pockets when they were taken


    32. Watch yourself and your pockets, Nathan


    33. He checks his pockets


    34. The office was plankwall and batten except for the pyramid wall itself, but it was well finished and he had two stand-cushions as well as a high-backed roll-stool with a tile floor and a long ornate work table with pockets, three tall folder racks on one end of the table and three short ones under that end


    35. The consultant unfolds his arms and thrusts them into his lab coat pockets


    36. Chrissie rammed her hands into the pockets of her jacket and hugged it to herself


    37. "Stupid arsehole!" he says to himself as he pockets the key


    38. The one that checked Roman’s pockets


    39. He pulled out an apple from one of the flannel pockets and began to eat


    40. He moves slowly towards the door and then pauses with his hands thrust into his jacket pockets

    41. He fumbles in his pockets for the keys to the Transit, realises that they are not there and starts to feel sweat breaking out on his forehead


    42. He follows in his master's wake, hands thrust deep into his coat pockets


    43. It was a risk Tipene was willing to take, so he searched his pockets and had just enough change to play 3 games


    44. kept his hands in the pockets of his flannel, and turned the collar up against his


    45. It had not been lost on any of that powerful cadre of merchants and proprietors comprising the Village Council that Lawrence Spelman was a man of extraordinarily deep pockets, with international contacts and connections, and most eye-opening to them, he was the close friend and confidant to George and Belle Livingson


    46. there in a brown Carhartt jacket, hands in his pockets, and eyes fixed on the


    47. The gifts of the Spirit are like an empty tool belt with nine pockets


    48. hands in the pockets of his camouflaged shirt, and pulled out two dart pistols—


    49. He stood with his hands in his pockets surveying the tiny little back plot of land behind their rented house


    50. And slipping out of the house he filled his pockets with little white pebbles, then went back to bed














































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    Synonyms for "pocket"

    pocket pouch air hole air pocket scoop sac sack bag cavity chamber socket hollow opening hole poke pod conceal hide enclose

    "pocket" definitions

    a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles


    an enclosed space


    a supply of money


    (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left


    a hollow concave shape made by removing something


    a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly


    a small isolated group of people


    (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)


    an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck


    put in one's pocket


    take unlawfully