Example sentences for: pockets

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

  • This resentment was further stoked by public understanding of how much oil income had gone straight into the pockets of the rulers, their friends, and their helpers.

  • Paintings that seem at first sight to be sober treatments of an enduring order turn out on closer inspection to have pockets of deep pathos or subtle humor.

  • The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.

  • Put money in ordinary people's pockets, and as they spend it the assembly lines will hum and unemployment will fall.

  • We find that pockets of heat in the form of stars and galaxies are spreading out and cooling down over time.


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