pencil
Example Sentences
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Featuring about 40 colored pencil drawings — mostly on real menus from L.A. restaurants — the whimsical show is a love letter to his Fairfax neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Murphy said Newsom has championed major policies and been reluctant to back off them later when revenue doesn’t pencil out.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
Using the new pencil beam approach, the team generated rapid, high-precision images while also tracking how cells absorb proteins in real time.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
In his classic 1958 essay, “I, Pencil,” Leonard Read explained how a free-market economy brought together the necessary raw materials—wood, graphite, metal, rubber, paint—to make as apparently simple a product as a pencil.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
Her fingers fumbled a bit in it, and as she leaned over to peer into the case, a pencil and a photograph fell out of it.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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