Example sentences for: pockets

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

  • ) In Montana, the state pockets 15 percent of video gambling revenue in taxes, close to $40 million for the state's treasury.

  • Popular, too, is the game of caroms, played by flicking checkers on a square board with corner pockets.

  • There are many stories of refugees who arrived with nothing in their pockets, set up a small sidewalk stall, worked diligently until they had their own store, and then expanded it into a modest chain.

  • The same place any corporate savings go--into the pockets of the stockholders, increasing their earnings from $240,000 to $600,000--a 150 percent increase overnight.

  • Eventually the British began to force the Maroons into more isolated and remote pockets of land.


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