PENCIL in a Sentence

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For PENCIL, below is one of 94 sentences:
All were agreed that one could be ordered, but that it was not a usual size of pencil and that it was seldom kept in stock.

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 Meanings and Examples of PENCIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pencil
 n.  an implement for writing or drawing consisting of a slender cylinder
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  I even took a pencil and jotted them down.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  One of the articles had a pencil mark at the heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  "Major and Mrs. Mayhew," Page the reporter noted, licking his pencil.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  "Streatfield," the reporter licked his pencil and noted "then spoke."
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  , taking the slip of paper and the pencil which Holmes handed to him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
8  On the table in the window were several shreds from a pencil which had been sharpened.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
9  Well, he wrote so furiously that he broke his pencil, and had, as you observe, to sharpen it again.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
10  The pencil was not an ordinary one.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
11  Look for such a pencil, Mr. Soames, and you have got your man.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
12  I will take the black clay with me, also the pencil cuttings.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
13  There were only four stationers of any consequences in the town, and at each Holmes produced his pencil chips, and bid high for a duplicate.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
14  All were agreed that one could be ordered, but that it was not a usual size of pencil and that it was seldom kept in stock.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
15  "It is a pity he did not write in pencil," said he, throwing them down again with a shrug of disappointment.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  I could not find my pencil because it was covered up by the newspapers.
2  Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil.
3  Don't bear hard upon the pencil, it will break.
4  Please write in ink, not in pencil.
5  If you draw or write in pencil you can always rub out your mistakes with an eraser.
6  I can't write with this pencil stub.
7  She can't write yet, but she loves to scribble with a pencil.
8  Write your homework in ink ,not in pencil.
9  There is a pencil in the box.
10  Your pencil box has several compartments.
11  Don't bear hard on the pencil, it will break.
12  The point of the pencil had been worn down when I finished this letter.
13  Neither pen nor pencil can express.
14  She scribbled a note in pencil.
15  He had written her a note in pencil.