vest-pocket

Definitions

Examples

• He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.

• I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

• Other officials told reporters that searchers also spotted a life vest and baggage in the water.

• It had a wide brim and a tall crown, which created an insulated pocket of air and could also be used to carry water.

• This leaves thousands of women at companies across the United States left to pay out of pocket for their birth control.

• The young man smiled at the girl, as he crushed up the notes and stuffed them into his pocket.

• Down in his galleries and chambers where it was dark as a pocket Grandfather Mole enjoyed himself thoroughly.

• Absently his hands wandered through the pockets, and found his purse and the money in an outside pocket.

• “Of course we know it, sir,” rejoined Fogg, slapping his pocket—perhaps by accident.

• Thinking it was a request for employment which he could not offer, Malcolm stuffed it carelessly into a pocket.