Sentence examples for blue-pencil from inspiring English sources

Woolf wasn't the only one to "blue-pencil" out the servants.

"Why did she so often blue-pencil them out?" Light theorizes that Woolf "was driven by the urgent need to handle and reshape what she found unaesthetic, even repulsive, especially when it concerned the life of the body".

By Laurie Lee The New Yorker, July 8 , 1950 P. 26Blue-pencil knife, to keep it brief, View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By George Packer By Andy Borowitz.

By Laurie Lee The New Yorker, July 8, 1950 P. 26 Blue-pencil knife, to keep it brief, View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Doreen St. Félix By Jia Tolentino.

Enter Maxwell, with blue pencil.

It should have included a blue pencil.

A blue pencil should have been squeezed into the budget.

Someone needs to take a blue pencil to the script.

Though I say it myself, I'm quite handy with a blue pencil.

She was wearing only sneakers, white Keds with the blue pencil stripe on the rubber.

But who's to tell Rowling how badly her recent books needed the blue pencil?