The word 'pencils' is correct and usable in written English.
It is the plural form of 'pencil' which refers to a writing instrument with a thin lead core enclosed in a cylinder of wood or other material. Example: Please bring me a pack of pencils for my math class. In this sentence, 'pencils' is used in its plural form to refer to a set of writing instruments that the speaker needs for their math class.
If they earn enough, come Friday they can cash them in for pencils, little rubber monsters or keyrings.
But then I thought: "Well, I have a pencil, and pencils are made of wood, so somebody has to chop them down".
Most people going into the ballot box with their "stubby little pencils" (TM David Cameron in almost every speech), will be voting for the party they mistrust and dislike the least.
There were only 10 in the audience, but three of them had pencils and notebooks.
They had so little – no new clothes, pencils for school or snacks beyond their every day meal of rice and lentils – and, forget material possessions, they had no mother or father to tuck them in at night.
They cut back on the use of pencils, changed the fabric of mailbags and lowered the tariff on paintbrush handles.
Thousands of cash dispensers in America stopped working, and police dispatchers near Seattle had to use pencils and paper when their computers were disabled.
FALL is here, the pencils are sharpened, and all the students are heading back to school, except for the veterans who are still waiting forlornly for their GI Bill payments to come through.
BERTIE AHERN, Ireland's former prime minister, once lamented that his countrymen still cast ballots with "stupid old pencils".
They continued to excel through high school, despite difficult learning conditions such as long commutes and a lack of money with which to buy books, uniforms and even pencils.
Gonçalo Mabunda is one of several who use decommissioned weapons to make "gun throne" sculptures (another is Cristovao Canhavato also known as Kester whose work is one of the mainstays of the African collection at the British Museum).Traditional artistic materials like paints and pencils are likely to be used for graphic ends.
