Sentence examples for pencil from inspiring English sources

There is no evidence of the preliminary tentative mark, of the initial hesitant touch of the pencil or crayon that would allow the artist to get his bearings and select the position for the first expressive line.

Which is why so few of us actually got our hands on the stubby pencil of destiny.

Cameron, still displaying signs of residual pump, continued his absurd quest to turn "stubby pencil" into his "Ooh Betty", while reluctantly hopping about on the stage like a circus bear on an electrified plate.

There are also many ways of creating comics, from pencil and ink, to digital pens and pads, to embroidery.

These single-player programs were, in turn, heavily inspired by the pencil and paper role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, which had been hugely popular in student circles since its publication in 1974.

After the war, Madi came to the United States, bringing the diary, which she later amended slightly in pencil.

Remember the tentative first steps of the Bambi-like Nick Riewoldt in 2001, when his pencil-thin arms and legs couldn't yet carry him to the destinations his mind had in store?

Slim ski trousers and fur jackets for vacationing European royalty; tidy pencil-skirt suits that would fit any ambassadorial reception as well as a Ferrero Rocher.

For Parker's work, Novoselov took microscopic samples of graphite from drawings in the Whitworth's collection, as well as a pencil-written letter by Sir Ernest Rutherford, who split the atom in Manchester.

Sat in front of the mainline train station at the top end of the North Laine, this pencil-straight street is often the first road visitors and commuters cut down to reach the centre of town.

How these are formed confers different physical attributes, just as carbon's characteristics change from pencil-mark graphite to sparkling diamond.