pencil
Example Sentences
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All else remaining equal, the resulting range would pencil out to a bladder-busting 700 miles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
However, nonconductive materials like fingernails or pencil erasers do not alter the electric field, so the screen does not respond.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
Lanier leaned on his down-home Texas folksiness throughout the trial, telling the jury what was on his heart and scribbling with grease pencil on his demonstrative aids.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
He said she had pointed a broken pencil at him.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
I asked, fishing my pencil out of my pocket.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
