graphite

Example Sentences

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Your pencil—mechanical, size .7 mm graphite only—glides across the paper.

From Literature

Now I’m sitting at the kitchen table with my sketchbook, a mallard’s feather, and a selection of my graphite pencils, letting what Dr. Crowchild said percolate.

From Literature

It features 26 paintings, oil sketches and drawings, these last done in Conté crayon, a medium made from powdered graphite and carbon black that allowed deeper blacks and more expressive tonal contrasts.

From The Wall Street Journal

The group’s goal is to help the U.S. and allied nations secure sources and supply chains for critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, manganese, uranium and copper.

From The Wall Street Journal

My own face in graphite, sketched on the back of this envelope, half in profile as if the artist has just called my name.

From Literature