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
A loose 1878 crayon and ink-wash study for an illustration for Émile Zola’s “L’Assommoir” becomes a firmer, more detailed pen, ink and chalk version, made even more solid in the final reproduction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
It’s so obvious, it’s practically unconscious — like being told to crayon a great painting and selecting the “Mona Lisa.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
At some point, we both got really sleepy, but nobody wanted to break the spell that encircled our little couch amid the rainbow-colored animals and crayon boxes.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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
Even as a child colouring with the crayons she loved, she seemed to be doing the wrong thing.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
A big electronic billboard in downtown Midland shows current market rates for oil and gas and the local oil-rig count, along with motivational slogans like “broken crayons still color.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
They were loose in the bag and wrinkled; a few were marked with crayons.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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
The mummy jar had been unscrewed, the tape stripped off, the crayoned picture of the Jackson Five torn.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
