How to Use pocket-size in a Sentence

pocket-size

adjective

• Even with an impressive 17 tools to its credit, the pocket-size Gerber Gear Truss more than fits the bill.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• Each day of the week has its own portable, pocket-size case that can be removed from the box and carried on its own for day trips or hikes.
  — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2023
• Dark Painted Woodwork Just off the dining room, Bambi carved out a 7- by 7-foot space for a pocket-size library.
  — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 23 Aug. 2023
• This pocket-size version can easily fit into their gym bag or carry-on for on-the-go relief.
  — Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2023
• Like several other pocket-size displays, this one could serve as a rough draft for bigger, deeper shows to come.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• No need to fumble around with a mess of cords—this slim, pocket-size power bank snaps onto the back of any MagSafe-compatible smartphone to charge the battery wirelessly.
  — Joni Sweet, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• While this laundry bag and portable washing machine might bring backpacking to mind, the ultra-light bag that packs down to a pocket-size square can be handy indoors, too.
  — Molly Harris, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
• Nearby, an older woman who was resting on a bench handed me a pocket-size edition of the Zohar, from the Kabbalah Centre.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• Google, Motorola and others are trying folding or flip phones that offer more screen real estate in a pocket-size phone.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• However, this pocket-size stain remover can help remove stains in seconds by using a microfiber pad that lifts and absorbs them to leave your clothes looking brand new.
  — Casey Clark, Peoplemag, 8 July 2023
• In no hurry, the former Dean Street boy peruses the tables, lifts up a curiosity, a pocket-size paperback of Melville’s Redburn with an evocative sketch of a sailor.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• This book is a pocket-size pep talk for high-achieving and aspiring individuals.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Aug. 2023
• The session grew raucous as some members waved pocket-size copies of the U.S. Constitution and suggested that the plan violated the country’s founding principles.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• While many people just walk by the rectangular openings in the sidewalk from which the trees spring — or, worse, use the spaces as trash cans and doggy litter boxes — others lay claim, unofficially, to these pocket-size patches of land.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The pocket-size Mini is a slightly narrower and smaller version of CobraHead’s original weeder and is better at handling precise jobs and tight areas.
  — Ebony Roberts, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
• Almost everything is represented — there are pocket-size versions of the denim dining table, pink camping stools and sofa — except the home’s residents.
  — Nick Haramis Laurent Kronental, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• That started changing a few years ago, when visitors got wind of the numerous delights this pocket-size metropolis has to offer, including its buzzing art scene and the colorful Christmas market that helped put this city on the wintertime map.
  — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
• The Handel selections, accompanied by a pocket-size chamber orchestra, were characteristically vibrant, which was all the more haunting in the concert’s context.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• For aspiring know-it-alls, Princeton University Press sells a series of pocket-size encyclopedias covering subjects including brain phenomena and dinosaur lore.
  — Ella Riley-Adams Angela Koh Jameson Montgomery Jameson Montgomery Tom Delavan, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Advertisement Social media also create opportunities for exploitation and harassment that simply didn’t exist before vast swaths of the population were connected by pocket-size computers.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024