Sentence examples for lay a pencil from inspiring English sources

Lay a pencil (or similar object) across the top of the container and tape your wick to it, so that the wick is centered in the container.

Rather than just lay a pile of pencils on the desk, put them in a holder.

If you printed out a picture to use, lay a piece of tracing paper on top and go over it with a pencil.

Beneath the brilliance of Jien's virtuosity with a pencil lies a world suffused with goofy humor, head-scratching nuttiness, unexpected empathy and, strangest of all, serenity.

"If you can imagine something that weighs six stone or so, is on the point of death and has no qualities of the human condition that are not revolting," Braddon wrote, "calmly lying there with a pencil and a scrap of paper, drawing, you have some idea of the difference of temperament that this man had from the ordinary human being".

Lay it down on the surface you are drawing on, and lay your pencil point along the edge of the rule.

We can all lay our hands on a pencil and piece of paper.

You lie down to sleep and lay down your pencil.

"There's not a pencil lying around.

He then held a sealed-bid auction, designed so that no one had any reason to lie about how much a pencil was worth to them.

His true passion however, lies in pencil and paper, and a tablet computer.