pencil
Example Sentences
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Tim the Pencil doesn’t mean to manipulate you, but the hand holding him can.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Style: Pencil mustache, cowboy hat, Nashville-style leisure suit.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024
Instead, Igounet decided to produce a comic book: “Black Pencil: Samuel Paty, the Story of a Teacher,” based on two years of reporting and made with the illustrator Guy Le Besnerais, was published in October.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
In his poem Pencil Me In, he wrote:
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023
“But then she’s not being quiet. You hear this scraping from her. Krik? Krak! Pencil, paper. It sounds like someone crying.”
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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