Sentence examples for taking pen from inspiring English sources
Taking pen in hand, I affixed my signature to a bill that totaled nearly $1,500 for four diners, tip not included.
That was the dream of the seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried von Leibniz, who imagined a calculus of reason that would permit disagreements to be resolved by taking pen in hand and saying, Calculemus — "Let us calculate".
We're scrambling for no reason, pulling up our sleeves and then pulling them down, taking pen in hand and then realizing we don't need a pen yet, turning to a neighbor to whisper onomatopoeias more than words.
In the paper "Computer-based testing: An alternative for the assessment of Turkish undergraduate students", Akdemir and Oguz (2008) discuss an experiment to compare student performance in paper-and-pencil tests with computer-based tests, and conclude that students taking computer-based tests do not underperform compared to students taking pen-and-pencil tests.
Take pen scanners, for example.
I love to take pen and write whatever I want, just write, write, write".
Like any other indignant reader, Shaw took pen in hand and wrote to his paper.
Here they are, a goodly company, bright of eye, quick to take pen in hand: Mr. Sidney Chase, of Nantucket.
Were he still able, Lowell himself would undoubtedly have taken pen in hand to take errant reviewer to task.
I took pen to paper and before long set up my first online business – Rediz, an affiliate-based shopping portal.
WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolinaestate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions.
