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lead pencil

NOUN
  1. pencil that has graphite as the marking substance

How To Use lead pencil In A Sentence

  • The robbers made off with $125 in cash, a $300 gold watch, two jackknives, and three lead pencils, everything Twain had in his pockets. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • It was not a very awful weapon that Miss La Creevy held, it being in fact nothing more nor less than a black – lead pencil; but discovering her mistake, the little portrait painter exchanged it for a mother – of – pearl fruit knife, wherewith, in proof of her desperate thoughts, she made a lunge as she spoke, which would have scarcely disturbed the crumb of a half – quartern loaf. Nicholas Nickleby
  • The coherer was a little tube of glass not as long as your finger, and smaller than a lead pencil, into each end of which was tightly fitted plugs of silver; the plugs met within a small fraction of an inch in the centre of the tube, and the very small space between the ends of the plugs was filled with silver and nickel dust so fine as to be almost as light as air. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
  • The blacklead pencils have HB lead that is extremely tough and able to withstand a great deal of maltreatment!
  • The perpetuation of this pleasant, comfortable life, therefore, becomes the goal for which writers - gifted and ungifted - are willing to be a producer's ‘lead pencil.’
  • He brought out his order book and a blacklead pencil. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People
  • The show includes landscapes and portraits, red chalk and lead pencil, as well as drawings and sketches.
  • Vugular pore openings are frequently as large as an ordinary lead pencil and are usually attributed to leaching of the rock subsequent to deposition.
  • Here's your schoolbag that I took last night and fill it with notebooks, folders full of loose-leaf paper, pens, lead pencils, and a medium-size binder.
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