pencil
Example Sentences
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Your pencil—mechanical, size .7 mm graphite only—glides across the paper.
From Literature
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Comparing them is like comparing good art pencils with dollar store pencils.
From Literature
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Apart from the Walden adventure, Thoreau appeared as a public speaker and worked as a surveyor and in his father’s very successful pencil factory, for which he created some important innovations.
From Los Angeles Times
The central bank recently left one more cut to rates penciled in for 2026.
From MarketWatch
However, nonconductive materials like fingernails or pencil erasers do not alter the electric field, so the screen does not respond.
From Science Daily
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