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.
It's almost hypnotic—the scratching of the pencil on the page.
Next to the phone, there was a pencil dangling on a string.
Don't bear hard on the pencil, it will break.
The 320 million of annual cost savings pencilled for the combined entity would represent a decent chunk of added value. Times, Sunday Times
He ennobled everything he touched with his brush or his pencil.
A and chronic smelly while stumbling out the telly lyrics courtesy of www. killerhiphop.com Im so fly Im so ferry and the way I flow is very ginsu or machete, move my pencil move his deli platinum band platinum bezzie make a straight girl out of lezzie magazine mac bezzie keep my windows like the prezzie press a button than Im stuntin my roof look like its duckin meter go WN.com - Business News
He could hear the scratch of her pencil, and the air moving past the car.
Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil.
While all the other girls' clothes were cute and baggy and slouchy, my pencil skirt and tweed vest fit tight across my hips and butt.
They then painted the outlines of their face and facial features with a dark color of acrylic paint, tracing their pencil sketch through the Plexiglas.
She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer, sharpened her pencil and got down to work.
He asked for his pencils the moment he arrived. Times, Sunday Times
To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser.
You had used only a subtle taupe pencil, which I would have thought would wash out my fair complexion.
A life-long penciller of rippling muscles and bosomy babes, he casually refers to Hamlet, Irving Berlin and Ira Gershwin as he describes a life's work in what is often seen as a trashy business.
Use a lip liner pencil as a base coat, then apply lip color.
The new writing in blue ink slightly overlapped my writing that was in pencil.
At first glance, Ryan's drawings look like half-finished sketches, with faint pencil marks still visible in the finished picture.
Here is the note written in pencil over here. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Have a pad and pencil ready and jot down some of your thoughts.
Longson walked up, took a pencil, and wrote down a name on the piece of paper, folded it, and handed it to Bradley.
Replacement of paper with a computer screen, and pencil with electrons, does not "untie" the process. Groklaw
Finally 100 grams of whiting, dry and sifted, are mixed with 5 grams of pulverised supertartrate of potass; this new powder is dissolved in a portion of the above described liquid, in sufficient quantity to form a paste of the proper consistency to be spread with a pencil on the article or part to be gilded. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
He ran out carrying a stack of blank papers, a bunch of crayons, pencils, charcoal sticks, a camera and a huge straw hat.
a pencil with a sharp point
When artwork is returned from a comic book, the penciller gets two thirds of the pages, the inker the remaining third.
On one side, underneath the writing in ink, is a small pencil drawing of an animal.
He gathered up the music manuscript into a tidy pile and put his pencil slant-wise across the top.
With a removable chalk pencil draw lines through the center of the fabric both lengthwise and breadthwise.
Sometimes teachers I know draw little pencil lines here and there in the books.
An unknown actor was penciled in to play the leading role.
Hairgrips, a pencil, a bobbin, a teaspoon with an apostolic head.
The Japanese artists ISOBE Katsushiro and MIZUNO Ryo continue to follow Japanese beau ideal style, one draws the insect world with his pencils, another builds the weird atmosphere with his ball pens.
Jessi opened her folder and pulled out various pieces of paper and pencils, passing several to each bed.
Tuition includes pencil, pastel, oil and other painting techniques as well as sculpturing.
The second batch will be trained in pencil drawing, watercolour painting, oil painting and acrylic painting.
The 10th kind of method is: Will wear the silver on the hand to act the role of get off, brush with cotton cloth black hind use thrush, have the effect of eyebrow pencil, avirulent .
The classification was subjective, and families were torn apart when paler or darker skinned children or parents – or those with curlier hair (apparently as a test, pencils were placed in the hair and classifications were made based on whether or not it stayed there), or different features – were placed in separate categories. 2009 April 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Use tracing paper overlays and a soft pencil to sketch new landscape ideas and plans over your base map.
Just pencil in the answer unless you're sure it's correct.
Same with wadded paper, pencils, food cartons: Nothing gave his actors that urgent, terrified look he wanted. James Cameron pushes every boundary for his 'Avatar' vision
Other forms of art are welcome too (digital, black and white in pencil or pen, or bizarre stuff). We Need Cover Art « Survival By Storytelling Magazine
I took my colouring pencils out and started to colour in.
There were sketchpads and drawing pencils, as well as other art materials on top of the dresser.
The pale smoke from the cottage chimney pencilled up.
The fixing of these strips will entail a certain amount of carpentry, and in addition to bradawl, screwdriver, and footrule you will need a hard pencil and a carpenter's square, as well as some stout iron screws one inch long. The Book-Hunter at Home
However the map was drawn in pencil, it had no towns, no villages, no roads, no mountain names, no river names.
Pen, black pencill, brown ink, aquarelle 24cm x 37cm Archive 2009-02-01
Their seaside conference was pencilled in as merely a stroll towards a second term.
Having long had this match penciled in as a win, and on the back of two stirring victories, we were chock-a-block full of confidence that our recent good record against the Hooped Affair was going to continue.
Darken the eyebrows with dark brown or black powder - pencil gives a very harsh look.
At Hollybush we took information on board in a democratic, communal fashion, grouped with notebooks and pencils around visual aids.
Try using different lengths of pencil. 7.
It was followed by one from Janet who discovered a pencil-shaped parcel stuck beneath the bannister with Sellotape. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
It is hard not to gasp at the speed of the ascent and my admiration is more marked, and more edgy, because I know that the whole structure is balanced on a bearing the size of a small, round coffee table, like a pencil poised on the tip of its lead.
You can hold the auriscope in either a ‘pencil type’ grip or ‘hammer type’ grip.
Therefore the basic submission that a blue pencil should have been applied throughout the interview was rejected.
A pencil is for writing, a shoe is for wearing, a car is for driving.
He kept his pencil sharp for statistics and watched churches grow in number from 119 in 1777 to 325 in 1795.
Bare tree limbs and branches are drawn against the winter sky, as whimsical as pencil sketches. Christianity Today
From no point of view could the West look so lovely as from that lattice with the garland of jessamine round it, whose white stars and green leaves seemed now but grey pencil outlines - graceful in form, but colourless in tint - against the gold incarnadined of a summer evening - against the fire-tinged blue of an August sky, at eight o'clock p.m. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
At Yumeta, pencil sketches are scanned into a computer, then a technician adds color digitally.
British officers pencilled out amusing menus featuring horseflesh and one Major Stewart's ‘devoted batman was killed while bringing his mule-steak lunch to his dug-out’.
All the corrections are made in red pencil.
During the fourth year the child learns to cut with scissors and to thread beads, develops a mature pencil grasp, and learns to draw.
Kohl pencil comes in at roughly three times the price it was in its previous incarnation as an eyeliner.
If it makes you feel better, use a pencil. Even better, buy a packet of those little stickie tabs and slap one on the page with a short note.
The spines of the omnivorous pencil-spined urchin (Eucidaris thouarsii) extend outward from its body. There are some 700 species of sea urchins worldwide.
Rendered only somewhat individual by almost insignificant pencil numbers along the edges, the rows and columns form a visually disturbing base latticework.
She sat still for a few seconds as Gabby dug a sharply edged eyeliner pencil into her top eyelid.
Stowing away his "dunnage," therefore, in the after deck - house, and flinging his bedding into the berth which he selected for his own occupation, he quickly rejoined the mate, who furnished him with book and pencil, and stationed him at the after hatchway to take account of everything which passed down that receptacle. The Missing Merchantman
He has a pencil moustache and a trusty sidekick, a little terrier. Times, Sunday Times
There was a lovely twinset paired with a cotton pencil skirt that oozed easy sophistication.
He kept jabbing at the paper cup with his pencil.
I tapped my mechanical pencil against my desk and sighed deeply, glancing at the clock from the corner of my eye.
Use a rule and a sharp pencil and move rule and pencil along the wall to give a pencil line on the paper.
While many turn their paychecks over to their husbands, others rebel, demanding the family's few spare cents go to pencils for the kids rather than cigarettes.
In rush seasons it will make use of publisher's description, after carefully blue-pencilling obtrusive adjectives, but it goes no farther. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
Kishi put down the pencil with which she had been marking up the corner of her assignment book and suddenly took to erasing the marks with much vigor.
They contain lithium-aluminate pellets lined with zirconium, and are clad into long pencil-shaped, stainless steel rods. Robert Alvarez: Future Supply of New Tritium Explosive for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Doubt
Most oil paintings and pencil sketches portrayed women, classical dancers and children in different perspectives.
Features epaulettes, an inside pocket, two side pockets and a pencil holder on the left sleeve.
The end of the pencil snapped.
Try to keep the energy of your pencil drawing. Times, Sunday Times
She taps on the desk with an inverted pencil and clears her throat.
I'm not the sort of pencil connoisseur to use pretentious French words (whoops -- too late) and imply that using the ideal writing utensil is some kind of transcendental experience. Archive 2008-05-01
John finds that artist pencils allow him to better express his artistic creativity than the brush because of the aspect of detail and layers of tone and texture which can be obtained.
During the course of the voyage he made close to eighty oil sketches and numerous pencil drawings of ice in the form of icebergs, glaciers, packs, and floes under various conditions of light and atmosphere.
She pencilled the rough outline of the mountain in front of her house.
When the previous government proposed cuts to the permanent collection of the British Library — the nearest thing we have to a national memory — it became clear how little this notion had registered with red-pencil types. A Debate Over Books and Sequestered Nooks
First, find a lip liner pencil in the same color or tone as your lipstick.
We spotted Mindbender, a freestanding pencil of solid ice that lay in a pile of chunks at the base of the cliff two days earlier.
Was originally a fine pencil sharpener!
In this company you have to go through complex bureaucratic procedures just to get a new pencil.
She pencilled the rough outline of the mountain in front of her house.
I liked drawing, but I only liked drawing with my art pencils.
You wouldn't use the Big Chief tablet and a pencil to scrawl paper letters to your customers: take the same care with your e-mail.
Her natural eyebrows had thinned with age, but they were darkened and thickened with great black pencil lines which jutted down the sides of her face.
With braillewriters ready, laptops open, and pencils sharpened, more than 45 students with visual impairments will participate in the Tenth Annual Technology Olympics.
Make light pencil lines so that they will erase easily.
He has a pencil moustache and a trusty sidekick, a little terrier. Times, Sunday Times
For lips, always use a pencil, but be sure to match it to your lip colour.
Students were allowed to use graphite pencil or a very fine-tipped felt pen.
To tile around pipes and wall mounted faucets, use a pencil to mark the tile where it needs to be cut and break out the marked piece with tile nippers.
Also patron of academics, chastity, pencil makers and schools.
She's a brilliant artist, a complete master of the pencil. Times, Sunday Times
A previous owner has pencilled 'First Edition' inside the book's cover.
Some people just use the good old-fashioned method of printing out the text to be proofed, and blue-pencilling the mistakes. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
The company founds in 1992, Is melts the metal penstock, the pencil lead, the pen tip, the pen cap, the pen circle and the end product processing is a body specialized business Enterprise.
The pens and pencils were in a can on the corner, a small box contained crisp white envelopes, extra paper was in a folder, and a stack of manuscripts sat on the far side of the desk.
His main job is penciling — creating the initial drawings, based on stories from writers, which are then finished by inkers — and he is known as a stickler for detail. Archie: American Idol
We may pencil in the forest and the ponds.
Â Again, the strength of the scripting is really let down by the pencilling (although the colors are fantastic.) Zorro #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Please hold eyebrow pencil tightly but draw eyebrow gently.
He drew the final version of the winning poster with a combination of jiffy marker pens and acrylic paints, after working on rough drafts in pencil.
Examples of large prints are chalk stripes and coin dots while small patterns are pin/pencil stripes and pin/polka dots.
On the rough paper, my pencil snagged; at once, my reverie was interrupted. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
She would sit there drawing with the pencil stub.
The Northern Star Literary Award, a hand-crafted pen, pencil and letter opener in a box of North Coast red cedar, will also be awarded for best entry overall.
Write your essays in pen not pencil.
She absently tapped her artistry pencil on the sketch paper as she stared out onto the whitened garden with unseeing eyes.
I found a pencil and some blank paper in her desk.
There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning.
At the other end of the vertebrate scale, hominoids have similarly provided the butt for many a joke, while Darwin himself has not escaped completely the humorists' pen or pencil.
Robbins was looking over the morning _Pic. _, detecting, as young reporters will, the gross blunders in the make-up, and the envious blue-pencilling his own stuff had received. Roads of Destiny
She scribbled a note in pencil.
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
I've been pencilled in to race at Musselburgh on Monday and if the ground is fast I'll be off up to Scotland.
At the Marc Jacobs show, it came as plastic cabochons on a ponyskin sweater and as rubberised dots on taut pencil skirts. Coming round to the idea of polka dots
A self-taught artist, Ferdinand achieves an appealing bluntness, with the detail and graphic quality of reportage, using watercolor, colored pencil and ballpoint pen.
A big rubber thing with a beam like a broadsword and a pencil torch.
Don't wave a finger in front of the screen - use a pencil and be precise.
Common complimentary gifts include plastic bags, ballpoint pens, pencils, writing pads, water bottles and paper cups.
Draw the outline lightly with a soft pencil. This can be rubbed out later.
Smudge a dark eye pencil inside the waterline.
As such, a pre-tax profit of £100m has been pencilled in by brokers.
The lady with the pencil stopped tapping it, and stuck it behind her ear.
Another picture, a pen and pencil drawing, is a more devastating exposure still.
Most do too much while Ejiofor just purses his lips minimally to make you realise He Knows that his verbose, pencil-fetishising line manager is a jerk, that the hack who doorstepped his wife is scum, that justice must be done even in the case of a murdered unlamented drug baron etc. TV review: The Shadow Line and Psychoville
She then added a smudge of kohl pencil, a slick of mascara, and that was it. Times, Sunday Times
I ask, pencil poised above my personalized notepad purloined from the office.
It was strange to me at first to see how often she introduced those homelier wild-flowers which we call weeds, -- for it seemed there was none of them too humble for her to love, and none too little cared for by Nature to be without its beauty for her artist eye and pencil. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
At this very moment, exam markers are sharpening their red pencils to ring such sloppiness.
It's a fat pencil that comes with a smudger at the other end. Times, Sunday Times
This firm has also designed masts in the shape of a giant pencil, a sculpture and boat masts.
Ms Whelan was patient with me, though, and helped me navigate my way through formulae while Jason and Jason and Todd wrestled over stolen magazine porn and pencilled the word poontang along the pages edge of their textbooks. Schmutzie.com
Her eyebrow is well penciled.
I'll get a pencil and paper.
Please equip yourself with a sharp pencil and a rubber for the exam.
The dimmest personality in those offices was the girl whose name imaged to everyone little more than a pencil, notebook, and typewriting machine. Grain of Dust.
Pictures must be drawn in pencil, black ink or charcoal so that they can be copied onto the front page.
Nor would they appear to be aware that the blunders committed by the censors, such as they were, were by no means confined to malapert blue-pencilling of items of information that might have appeared without disclosing anything whatever to the enemy. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
Any legal document which does not specify otherwise can be legally signed in pencil.
We don't believe that this low inflation print will kibosh the hikes that we had pencilled in for April and June of this year.
If, despite having your pencils lined up and a fresh piece of paper in your typewriter, or a cool white computer screen in front of you, you find yourself unable to write, it may be because you're not nacreous enough. Writer's Block? Get Nacreous!
Laura patted her pockets, finally coming up with her guitar pick and one of Carrie's colored pencils.
She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.
At first I scarcely noticed them, supposing them to be vast beds of silvery bottom sand glittering under the electric pencil of the hydroscope. Police!!!
Disgusted, the “overcomer” me called the other me a “wimp” and I armed myself with a dozen #2 pencils and plenty of good erasers. My Resolution
It's really remote, and we stop off at a local school to give gifts such as colouring pencils. The Sun
A pencil eyeliner is also effective but make sure it's of a creamy texture as there's nothing worse than pulling a hard pencil across the tender skin of the eyelid - ouch!
The pulled out the drawings for the palace and scrutinized every pencil stroke.
the margins of his book were generously supplied with pencilled NBs
Anne sharpened her pencil and got out her homework.
Whilst we, their former colonial oppressors, are still farting around with bits of paper, pencils and tin boxes - they've just got on with it and held their first totally electronic national election.
It's in pencil, so you can rub it out if you need to.
To make your eyes look bigger, use a peach pencil on your waterline.
The latter is certainly the centre-piece (with a price tag to match) and is accompanied by two beautiful pencil and ink drawings.
Can I borrow a pencil?—Yes, help yourself.
There was a very large bed, a sturdy, metal writing desk and some pens and pencils were on top of the desk.
Then came the alcoholic years — mostly blurs but yet poems by the cartload from such phrases as the soul cried tears of blood to bucolic ramblings, usually ending with holes in the paper from frustrated pounding of pen or pencil. January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Fill in gaps by using short, upward strokes of the pencil.
True to a kids' art forms, I use pastels, pencil crayons and the great unsung medium of Jiffy markers.
Use lightning-fast strokes of brow pencil to help define brows that are well-groomed.
He saw Stella, blushed and twirled his hair around with a pencil, and then about-turned sharpish back out of the room.
She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.
The pencil light spun around, raked up the stairs, and speared straight into Carson's eyes.
He added the numbers mentally; he did not need a pencil and paper.
They'd made a museum about pencils which was really boring (and incidentally also included some pen nibs to try and fill things out a bit which I think is cheating).
His prize is a pencil moustache. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't have a pen, so I used a pencil instead.
The clouds were thickening over to the west and Dungiven and Claudy, and there was the grey blue pencil line of the mountains of Donegal. FIELD OF BLOOD
For instance, he shows how pencils can be used to explain optical principles.
It's in pencil, so you can rub it out if you need to.
Am I ok wearing a knee-length pencil skirt and closed-toe heels minus the nylons?
I, Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth.
And now that I've drooled over Danny's site, my eyes are wandering over to the cupboard where I keep a secret stash of notebooks, colouring pencils and of course a supply of purple pens.
Now, imagine doing all of that in what is basically bridal gear: a white lace pencil skirt and a pair of white high heels. Times, Sunday Times
Tie two strings round a pencil so you have four ends hanging down.
This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink.

How To Use Pencil In A Sentence

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