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Example sentences for: pocketing

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Sure, it's easy to decry the commercialization of the holiday, like putting trousers on all the figures in the nativity scene, adding a big electric sign that flashes: "Jesus Wore Khakis," and pocketing some pretty sweet change from the Gap.
At the same time, the governor and his cronies were busily pocketing bribes, as was the custom in the self-financing French colonial service.
A piece argues that fat attorneys' fees corrupt the multistate tobacco settlement, because plaintiff's lawyers will now a) bankroll the Democratic Party; b) fund their own political ambitions; and c) try to keep Big Tobacco profitable , so they can keep pocketing said fees for decades to come.
4 billion, pocketing $100 million for himself--a modest payoff, he says, for the $6 billion in increased shareholder value.
A long piece alleges that Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and his cronies have plundered their country, pocketing millions from state-owned companies and foreign-currency reserves.