Sentence examples for ordinary pencil from inspiring English sources

"Election laws clearly specify that the ballot must be marked with an ordinary pencil, supplied for the purpose," he told me.

In "Cardplayers" two pencil personages game at a hand-carved, miniature round table on which, by way of counterpoint, an ordinary pencil lies.

Take an ordinary pencil.

Consider the ordinary pencil and paper.

Get an ordinary pencil and draw the outline of the eye hole and eyelid.

Shade around the pupil like you did with the outline of the inner iris in step 2, but with an ordinary pencil.

Apple tests its smartphones using a similar method to Consumer Reports by applying 55lbs of weight to the back of the phones to test resilience to bending, or approximately the weight required to break three ordinary pencils.

Cover ordinary pencils (as above) to make extraordinary prizes for party games.

Notebooks and ordinary pencils do just fine--though having the right equipment for some things, such as fine or thick line pencils, may help.

One example of this force can be seen in ordinary graphite pencil lead.

In it he adopts the voice of an "ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write" to tell its genealogy, descended from cedar trees logged in Oregon, graphite "mined in Ceylon," clay from Mississippi and so on, all combined at the factory, where workers drink coffee and machines use power and glue.