Example sentences for: pocketing

How can you use “pocketing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • When the fourpenny groat was introduced passengers handed that over and the cabbies were down twopence on each journey, so they nicknamed it Joey and frequently spat on it in disgust before pocketing it whenever one was given to them in payment.

  • 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.

  • 4 billion, pocketing $100 million for himself--a modest payoff, he says, for the $6 billion in increased shareholder value.

  • At the same time, the governor and his cronies were busily pocketing bribes, as was the custom in the self-financing French colonial service.


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