How to Use in the pocket of (someone) in a Sentence

in the pocket of (someone)

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• However, the body of the tape measure is on the large side and may be too bulky to fit in the pocket of a tool belt.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
• Stick cash and credit cards in your shoe or in the pocket of your pant-pillow.
  — Bruce Northam, Outside Online, 17 Dec. 2014
• Still, the film is firmly in the pocket of Rockwell and Ronan as the odd pair working to solve the carnage.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
• In 1966, Rayford succeeded in bringing Cain’s skull back to the city in the pocket of his coat.
  — al, 27 Feb. 2022
• The items were found in the pocket of a jacket Burns had taken off while inside the suspect’s apartment.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 27 Jan. 2022
• South Kirkman Road found Vega had a handgun in the pocket of his hoodie.
  — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 8 July 2021
• The deputies searched the BMW and found guns in the back seat arm rest and the glove box and a steak knife in the pocket of Radcliffe’s hoodie, according to an arrest report.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• And so his whole demeanor has been to try and seem as in the pocket of the fringe of the Republican party as possible.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
• When the officer knocked on the front door, the 39-year-old man answered, holding a handgun in the pocket of his hoodie, the statement said.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Dec. 2021
• Officers found the boxcutter in the pocket of his jacket, the statement said.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
• The 22 caliber pistol fits in the pocket of her wool coat, small enough to carry on her walks around her peaceful neighborhood with her dog.
  — Kyung Lah and Kim Berryman, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
• Police also found a rifle round in the pocket of a man’s jacket in the master bedroom closet.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
• She’s accused those with lucrative stock portfolios of being in the pocket of Wall Street.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Relief pitcher Hirokazu Sawamura has an intricate pattern in the pocket of his Mizuno, and a four-leaf clover on the back.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• Mike DeWine is in the pocket of commercial property owners.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
• Presumably, the new principal is in the pocket of Ri-an’s mother too, which lends a kind of futility to much of what happened in Season 1.
  — Kayti Burt, TIME, 7 June 2024
• Adolfo Melis, also 99 and a surviving member of the record-breaking siblings, keeps rosaries in the pocket of his track suit jacket and said the important thing was not to get worked up about things.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
• Adolfo Melis, also 99, and a surviving member of the record-breaking siblings, keeps rosaries in the pocket of his track suit jacket and said the important thing was not to get worked up about things.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• Those in the pocket of the oil and gas industry already know that our passion for the environment and our rage at those destroying it are powerful.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• There’s a kind of vitality that gets released with certain actors that really puts you in the pocket of their mind and soul and intelligence.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 25 July 2022
• One of the suspect’s final Discord posts before the attack shows what appear to be three high-capacity magazines in the pocket of his driver-side door.
  — Joshua Eaton, NBC News, 20 May 2022
• To amplify the authenticity, Kurupt is cast as one of two ruthless, dumb crooks in the pocket of the commander, played by Brendan Gleeson.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• The AirTags can offer a fairly precise location when there are other Apple products nearby, such as an iPhone in the pocket of a baggage handler.
  — Gregory Wallace, Pete Muntean, and Gabe Cohen, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
• Trump and his allies have branded the case a witch hunt, a selective prosecution brought by a Democratic district attorney in the pocket of George Soros, boogeyman of the right.
  — Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• School officials learned that another parent who bought the packet legally for medical use had left it in the pocket of a jacket that her child mistakenly wore to school, Geary wrote.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• Norm Miller, real estate professor at the University of San Diego, said a drop in commissions — to 3 percent to 4 percent — would mean more money in the pocket of buyers and sellers.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• The performances are uniformly solid, especially by the two leads, and the generally low-key cinematic style keeps us in the pocket of the story.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• Colonial Revival, Victorian and Queen Anne are among the architectural styles in the pocket of late 19th- and early 20th-century houses.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• For all its talk, the Democratic Party is so deep in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry that this lame quarter-measure of 20 negotiations will be counted as a victory.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 19 Nov. 2021
• There’s hope that decentralizing the music industry could eliminate music production and distribution elitism and put the money back in the pocket of artists — the actual owners.
  — Tony M Fountain, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2021

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024