Sentence examples for tip of a ballpoint from inspiring English sources

The tip of a ballpoint pen.

Its brain is no larger than the tip of a ballpoint pen.

The writing tip of a ballpoint pen consists of a metal ball, housed in a socket, that rotates freely and rolls quick-drying ink onto the writing surface.

And scientists at the University of California at Berkeley are working on a smallpox-and-anthrax detector no bigger than the tip of a ballpoint pen.

The slab is made of over 100,000 small lenses and an equal number of even smaller solar cells, each the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen.

The amount of mercury contained in a C.F.L. is roughly equivalent to the amount of ink on the tip of a ballpoint pen and about one-fifth the amount in a watch battery, the council's paper says.

And, to an extent, they are: the images were made by placing scraps cut from newspapers and magazines on background paper, pouring (rather clumsily) a solvent on to them and then transferring the dried image by scoring it with the tip of an empty ballpoint pen, rather like those coin-and-pencil rubbings children do.

It now weights three grams and has a 0.7 millimeter tip — roughly the size of a ballpoint pen.

It now weights three grams and has a 0.7 millimeter tip — roughly the size of a ballpoint pen.

To emboss designs, push into the foam with a rounded tip or a ballpoint pen.

So far, the team at OSU have successfully collected images of a ballpoint pen tip (1 millimeter in diameter) and a mini drill bit (0.2 in diameter), and released the images online.