blue pencil
Example Sentences
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Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, hardly ever picks up his blue pencil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
The lack of an editor’s blue pencil is not.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2021
In a sense it’s an inversion of the writer-editor relationship in books, with Rowling wielding the blue pencil over the scriptwriter’s work.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2016
Go to “edit profile,” click the blue pencil next to the job you just lost, and you’ll have the opportunity to uncheck the “I currently work there” box, and to put in an end date.
From Forbes ● Sep. 8, 2014
He takes a blue pencil and draws little colored dots and lines that make the eyes look deep and textured and full.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
