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153 examples of Pencil in a sentence

She had vast quantities of very shiny hair and a cute little pencil case, super strong on state capitals, just a great speller.
Jealousy likes the vast quantities of shiny hair, the cute little pencil case.
Anyway, during the day, I went to school and at night I would sit and draw frame by frame of pencil animation.
You know, you might have seen the one, the little girl with no hands drawing a picture with a pencil held in her mouth.
And it feels like, and I'm biased, it feels like they're trying to make you memorize the whole encyclopedia before they let you go out and play, and to me, I've got Wikipedia on my cell phone, and it feels like they assume you're going to be on top of some mountain all by yourself with a number 2 pencil trying to figure out what to do when in fact you're always going to be connected, you're always going to have friends, and you can pull Wikipedia up whenever you need it, and what you need to learn is how to learn.
Biologists for the most part are still using a paper and pencil to visualize the processes they study, and with the data we have now, that's just not good enough anymore.
But it's not just because of our dashing personalities, superior conversational skills and excellent pencil cases.
Many of those kids could not hold a pencil when they arrived at school.
Even the pencil.
BF: He invented the pencil.
They wore makeup, and in fact, they would bond in the ladies' room over eyeliner and eye pencil.
Now, just like when you were a kid and you'd break your pencil and try and tape it back together again, we can heal, but it might not be in the most functional way, and we'll get a scar.
So, what if you had a yellow pencil sitting on your desk?
Well, the sun emits all colors of light, so light of all colors is hitting your pencil.
The pencil looks yellow because it reflects yellow light more than it reflects the other colors.
You look down and see a yellow pencil lying on your desk.
Your eyes, and then your brain, are collecting all sorts of information about the pencil: its size, color, shape, distance, and more.
Most of the things we see, like that pencil on your desk, are simply reflecting light from a source rather than producing their own.
So, when you look at your pencil, the light that hits your eye actually originated at the sun and has traveled millions of miles across empty space before bouncing off the pencil and into your eye, which is pretty cool when you think about it.
And, as a bonus, understanding that light acts like a wave leads naturally to an explanation of what color is and why that pencil looks yellow.
Said to the klutzy kid tripping into English class and spilling his books and pencil case all over the room, now that is just harsh and verbally ironic because what you said is not what you meant.
In a now famous experiment, she asked H.M. to trace a third star in the narrow space between the outlines of two concentric ones while he could only see his paper and pencil through a mirror.
It was exciting and creative but I never understood the unique flesh-colored pencil.
This is what I mean by a poor handhold: an edge smaller than the width of a pencil but facing downward that I had to press up into with my thumb.
The current system for tracking people is paper and pencil, and what that means is that when a mother and her five children walk into the camp, headquarters is essentially blind to this moment.
And we also give it another mouse in a pencil cup that it can decide to interact with.
And all our computers have, inside them, the copies of the architecture that he had to just design one day, sort of on pencil and paper.
She stole an egg from her mother's house, went to the market, sold the egg and bought a single pencil.
Then she walked five miles, clenching that pencil, trying to enroll.
He used oil stick, crayons, spray paint and pencil and pulled quotes from the menus, comic books and textbooks he kept open on the studio floor.
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