blue pencil
Example Sentences
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He was scheduled to host the program this Saturday, timed to the premiere of “Bupkis” — which also has Lorne Michaels as a producer — but the writers strike put a blue pencil through it.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023
The lack of an editor’s blue pencil is not.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2021
Go to “edit profile,” click the blue pencil next to the job you just lost, and you’ll have the opportunity to uncheck the “I currently work there” box, and to put in an end date.
From Forbes • Sep. 8, 2014
Here's my choice of the novels that might weigh as much as a brick, but to which I'd never take a blue pencil.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2014
I preferred to ignore the world around me, obsessing only over what was in front of me: my T-square, my X-acto knife, my blue pencil.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
