pencil

Example Sentences

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All else remaining equal, the resulting range would pencil out to a bladder-busting 700 miles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

However, nonconductive materials like fingernails or pencil erasers do not alter the electric field, so the screen does not respond.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

He said she had pointed a broken pencil at him.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

"Jeff Goldblum names his favourite pencil and a random Midlander describes his hometown... Friday nights on BBC One are now cosy but mundane," she wrote, in a three-star review.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

On my way out of the house, I grabbed a pencil and enough paper to make four good drawings and one mistake.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan