[
US
/ˈpɛnsəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈɛnsəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛnsəl/ ]
NOUN
- a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point
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graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication
the words were scribbled in pencil
this artist's favorite medium is pencil - a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood
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a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face
an eyebrow pencil
VERB
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write, draw, or trace with a pencil
he penciled a figure
How To Use pencil In A Sentence
- The jar tipped over, and hundreds of wooden clacks could be heard as the pencils littered the ground.
- She can't write yet, but she loves to scribble with a pencil.
- Students should ring the correct answers in pencil.
- If you think of a piece of hair as a pencil, the medulla is the graphite, the cortex is the wood, and the paint on the outside is the cuticle. The Tenth Circle
- Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery.
- The floor was divided into 25 rectangular squares by pencil lines.
- The twist-up pencil point lets you dot concealer exactly on the spot without hitting the surrounding skin.
- These 60 drawings show Picasso's work on paper with pencil, charcoal, ink and gouache.
- Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
- My daughter points a pencil with a knife.
