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153 examples of Pencil in a sentence

And actually, without knowing it, my father had invented something we can find in every schoolchild's pencil case: the so-called "correction pen." (Applause) But it was only the beginning.
Now this is a pencil with a few slots over here.
In a recent mimicking study at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to determine whether a smile was real or fake while holding a pencil in their mouth to repress smiling muscles.
The sound is a really big part, I think, of the experience of using a pencil, and it has this really audible scratchiness.
[Caroline Weaver on the Pencil] The pencil is a very simple object.
The story of the pencil starts with graphite.
Meanwhile, over in America, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was Henry David Thoreau who came up with the grading scale for different hardnesses of pencil.
The softer the pencil, the more graphite it had in it, and the darker and smoother the line will be.
The firmer the pencil, the more clay it had in it and the lighter and finer it will be.
And they figured out it was easier and less wasteful to do a hexagonal pencil, and so that became the standard.
Originally, it was bread crumbs that were used to scratch away pencil marks and later, rubber and pumice.
The attached eraser happened in 1858, when American stationer Hymen Lipman patented the first pencil with an attached eraser, which really changed the pencil game.
The world's first yellow pencil was the KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
KOH-I-NOOR did this crazy thing where they painted this pencil with 14 coats of yellow paint and dipped the end in 14-carat gold.
There is a pencil for everyone, and every pencil has a story.
And then, you have the Dixon pencil company.
It's an icon, it's what people think of when they think of a pencil and what they think of when they think of school.
And the pencil's really a thing that, I think, the average user has never thought twice about, how it's made or why it's made the way it is, because it's just always been that way.
In my opinion, there's nothing that can be done to make the pencil better than it is.
There's the nest entrance, there's a pencil for scale.
This is the nest entrance, here's a pencil for scale.
So if you're a criminal in a hurry and you need to copy someone's card, you can just stick a piece of paper on it and rub a pencil over it just to sort of speed things up.
The really good writing I've seen in my class was not from the assignments with a long deadline, but from the 40- to 60-minute crazy writing students did in front of me with a pencil.
So, for example, when you touch a pencil, microbial exchange happens.
She was peeling this palm frond apart, these little threads off of it, and she'd roll the threads together and make little thicker threads, like strings, and she would weave the strings together, and as the materiality of this exact very bag formed before my eyes over those three days, the materiality of the way the world works, of reality, kind of started to unravel in my mind, because I realized that this bag and these clothes and the trampoline you have at home and the pencil sharpener, everything you have is made out of either a tree or a rock or something we dug out of the ground and did some process to, maybe a more complicated one, but still, everything was made that way.
A pencil is not just a pencil.
That's a wire running down the middle, and not only is it a wire, if you take that piano circuit, you can thumbtack into the middle of a pencil, and you can lay out wire on the page, too, and get electrical current to run through it.
And so you can kind of hack a pencil, just by thumbtacking into it with a little piano electrical circuit.
And then you can take the little piano circuit off the pencil.
I went home, I grabbed a pencil, and I just started letting my hand shake and shake.
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