Sentence examples for red pocket from inspiring English sources

"red pocket" is an acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a gift of money in a special envelope given at Chinese New Year or special occasions. For example, "My grandmother gave me a red pocket for my birthday, filled with money."

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7.38pm GMT David Weir looked pretty slick there in the crowd in a blue suit with a red pocket handkerchief.

He added, "I won't go to court without a three-piece suit and without a red tie, and without a red pocket square".

My suit is accented by a brown polka-dot tie from Charvet, a sky-blue shirt from Browns, a red pocket square that matches my socks and tan bucks.

"I miss the big things, the major golf tournaments, the Derbys," he said dressed in a blue blazer with red pocket square, a patterned tie, houndstooth pants and soft shoes.

Gray-haired and mustachioed, he wore a suit with a red pocket square, and behind him was a slide-show image of him in a white lab coat, glowering for the camera and holding a bottle of scotch.

Sipping tea amid the wood paneling of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club — in a camel blazer with matching red pocket square and red cuff links — he looked the part of a gentleman from a good Philippine family.

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As darkness fell, we could see little red pockets of fire scattered amongst the thick woodlands to our north and hear the crash of the occasional burnt out tree as it fell – in early September, on the edge of a temperate rainforest.

I do like this bag, I like the way the camera insert folds out, I like the drawstring opening at the top of the bag, I even like the "green" pockets for empty memory cards, and the "red" pockets for the full cards.

Dozens of bills seeking to protect reproductive rights are cropping up in deeply red pockets of the country in an attempt to counter ongoing efforts by Republicans to restrict abortion or outlaw it altogether.

Traditional Chinese festivals (eg, lunar New Year, dragon boat festival, midautumn festival, etc) and corresponding signature items (eg, red pockets, dumplings, moon cakes, etc) are used in the imagery memory-training module.

American roulette tables have 37 pockets, including the 0, meaning that the ball has an equal probability of landing in either the black and red pockets, even or odd, and the small digits (1-18) or the larger digits 19-366).

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