CRAYON in a Sentence

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For CRAYON, below is one of 7 sentences:
Fleming had a box of crayons and one night during free study he had coloured the earth green and the clouds maroon.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAYON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crayon
 n.  stick of colored wax or chalk, used for drawing
Classic Sentence:
1  I noticed, in a heavy frame, one of those depressing 'crayon enlargements' often seen in farm-house parlours, the subject being a round-eyed baby in short dresses.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II
2  There was some that they called crayons, which one of the daughters which was dead made her own self when she was only fifteen years old.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
3  An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  Fleming had a box of crayons and one night during free study he had coloured the earth green and the clouds maroon.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  The crayon had been worn down to a stub.
2  Whenever he finished a crayon drawing, he would lovingly present it to his mother.
3  She coloured the picture in with crayons.