crayon
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If you have ever used a "magic eraser" sponge to scrub away scuffs on white shoes or crayon marks on a wall, you have seen how powerful these cleaners can be.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2026
Scribbles, doodles, crayon marks and stickers — evoking Lisa Frank and anime cartoons — have begun appearing on prominent Gen Z contemporary fiction covers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
Meanwhile, the 2025 novel “Unfit” by Ariana Harwicz, about a mother losing her children in a custody battle, uses erratic crayon scribbles on its cover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
“You are smart and kind,” she wrote in pencil, the handwriting surrounded by crayon hearts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Fern took an extra crayon for Miss Patty Cake.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Similarly, many school supplies are produced overseas, like pencils and crayons, which are predominantly imported from Brazil, China, Mexico and India.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
In other rooms, colleagues arranged pencil sharpeners, water bottles and crayons in patterns, recording with depth-sensor cameras.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
At one meeting, he said, a facilitator handed out crayons and asked participants to draw in their favorite colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Picture being at a restaurant with a fresh activity kids’ menu and set of crayons.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025
A large raindrop splashed down on the paper, and the man hurriedly rolled it up and grabbed his tin box of crayons.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Many families hung banners with crayoned, or painted, rainbows, with a hashtag mantra: “Tutto andra’ bene,” or everything will turn out OK.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2020
Taped to another wall are coloring book tear-outs of Odums’ drawings, crayoned in by young children who come here for art instruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
In the 50th minute, as the crayoned cheeks began to run, Swiss forward Steven Zuber snapped a header to level the game at 1.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018
A brightly crayoned Pollock's toy theatre pops up in its place, its flat proscenium arch festooned with pictures of the Cheshire Cat and Captain Hook.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
On the glass that covered it, some mysterious unknown person had crayoned a mustache right above my toothless grin.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Lately, those maps have come to resemble abstract art, or just crayoning gone wild.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Kraemer seemed to pause only once, when he beamed at an embassy employee crayoning the red-and-white flag onto cheeks all shapes and colors.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018
Their bags were stuffed with nappies and milk for Riad, who is busily crayoning and crawling under the table while they talk.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2016
After crayoning the wax onto your board you clip the paper to the iron so it's between the iron plate and your base.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because, with Maniac around, Hester and Lester lost their interest in crayoning everything in sight.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
