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Pencils in sentence

34 examples of Pencils in a sentence

Originally, when pencils were handmade, they were made round.
Since the early days of pencils, people have loved that they can be erased.
Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.
And if you looked very closely, you'd see that people were drawing with pencils, and they were pushing, you know, big rulers and triangles.
I don't care that pencils are supposed to be for writing.
Surprisingly, they just handed them right over, and then with some pencils I already had, I made this project for only 80 cents.
It's clearly not school, even though they're working shoulder-to-shoulder on tables, pencils and papers, whatever.
So they put a couple of people in the streets with pencils and clipboards, who walked around collecting information which led to a 20-cent tax on all cigarette sales.
And then they got sued by big tobacco, who claimed that collecting information with pencils and clipboards is neither precise nor provable.
Put down your pencils, as they say.
So if you think of naturally occurring CRISPR proteins as molecular scissors, you can think of base editors as pencils, capable of directly rewriting one DNA letter into another by actually rearranging the atoms of one DNA base to instead become a different base.
I quit my job at the papers, I closed my school, and I wrapped up my pencils and my brushes and inks, and I decided to go traveling.
And we make pencils the length of which measures the grime that we've pulled out of the air.
And where does Jane (the dull Eve Brent) get her lipstick and eyebrow pencils in the jungle?
And how did they manage to stab 3 (three) 18.9 mm long pencils THROUGH his neck in ONE drive?
And then again, the pencils aren't long enough to get all the way through still being able to have a grip on it!
I watched this because I love crosswords (I'm an "INK-er" myself, pencils are for the weak!
I can already hear the sound of lawyers sharpening their pencils: the offense must be defined specifically enough to withstand a human-rights challenge.
In second place was e-procurement, a digital solution implying improved oversight of the 720 billion takas ($9.1 billion) the government spends each year to pay for everything from new bridges to pencils.
Today, most of the world’s pencils are produced in China – an economy that is a peculiar mix of private entrepreneurship and state direction.
Each year, Bangladesh spends $9 billion (6% of GDP) on government procurement – everything from highways and bridges to desks and pencils – which amounts to about one-third of the entire public budget.
But protecting employment was not their main motivation; after all, beginning in 1727, they did allow non-religious texts to be printed, despite protests by calligraphers, who responded to the edict by putting their inkstands and pencils in coffins and marching to the High Porte in Istanbul.
The terrorists seem to have used knives to shave some victims’ fingers like pencils, he said, forcing them to write their names in their own blood.
His face was very grave, and behind him stood two sergeants, with long slips of paper and pencils in their hands.
But why should I attempt to depict and describe in detail, and feature by feature, the beauty of the peerless Dulcinea, the burden being one worthy of other shoulders than mine, an enterprise wherein the pencils of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, and the graver of Lysippus ought to be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze, and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?""What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?" said the duchess; "it is a word I never heard in all my life."
As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.
As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
There are endless tales of lost pencils, exercise-books too dear, and of children who do not learn . . .
As I was going upstairs to fetch my portfolio and pencils, Mrs. Fairfax called to me: "Your morning school-hours are over now, I suppose," said she.
"Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: to-morrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without softening one defect; omit no harsh line, smooth away no displeasing irregularity; write under it, 'Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.'"Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory--you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye;--What!