Sentence examples for harder lead from inspiring English sources

If you are drawing, you might outline with a harder lead, then darken and shade with a softer lead.

Buy thinner colored pencils with harder leads for finer work.

However, harder leads will cut the paper more often and are harder to get contrast with, along with being less blendable.

Start your drawings with the harder leads (H, HB) for sketching and outlining and switch to the softer leads (2B, 4B) for emphasis and shading.

If you will be shaping the lead, softer leads are easier and faster to shape but also lose their crisp edges more quickly, with the opposite effect for harder leads.

In January 2001 an article appeared in La Stampa that turned conspiracy theory into a hard lead.

Because it has improved hardness and strength, antimonial lead has traditionally been known simply as hard lead.

You don't have to have 10 years in, just have to go out play hard, lead by example.

Hard lead zirconate titanate ceramics (PZT, APC841 type) was used for sample fabrication.

They can also, when times are hard, lead to an awful form of self-paralysis.

Skelton said: "Obviously Paul is the hardest lead to play against and I was struggling a bit, but Robert played superbly well and deserves the title for the way he played".