Sentence examples for are pencil from inspiring English sources
verb
To write something using a pencil
- I penciled (BrEn: pencilled) it in my notebook.
Garlic scapes are pencil thin and exuberantly loopy, and emanate a clean and mildly garlicky scent.
Mr. Ratoff's drawings (the majority of the works here are pencil on paper) combine text and abstract shapes.
Mr. Young said small mice can squeeze through cracks that are pencil thin, while the adults can wriggle through dime-size holes.
A catalog for the auction, which will take place at Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers & Valuers in Shropshire, says that the etching is signed by Emma Lowenstramm, the artist, and that on the back are "pencil markings which have been identified as being the signatures of Hitler and Lenin".
Hanging on walls, resembling a military dugout, are pencil drawings of soldiers fighting or lying injured.
In some of the diaries there are pencil lines through several dates and appointments, accompanied by the word "Bed", indicating periods when her physical and mental health was fragile.
Several of the earliest pieces, done soon after Pollock arrived in New York City in 1930, are pencil-and-crayon sketches in the conventional sense.
He long ago made his "final renunciation of the burden of narrative": while the rest of us writer-walkers are pencil-chewing over the nature of our quests and how to get meaningfully from A to B, Sinclair just dodgems happily about.
"What we need are pencils and books".
'Why are pencils yellow?' 'Why are pencils shaped like hexagons?' It was really satisfying to tell these people the answers".
Financial markets have remained unconvinced and are pencilling in a rise in early 2015.
