Pencil is an English word with synonyms like graphite or plumbago. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pencil in a sentence
Related words
Pencil meaning
- A paintbrush.
- A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
- An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
Using Pencil
- The main meaning on this page is: A paintbrush. | A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. | An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
- Useful related words include: writing implement, graphite, black lead, plumbago.
- In the example corpus, pencil often appears in combinations such as: apple pencil, pencil and, the pencil.
Context around Pencil
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pencil
- In this selection, "pencil" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, apple, best, soft, company, games and stylus stand out and add context to how "pencil" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1902 another pencil company began and a brow pencil. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pencil" sits close to words such as baba, cyclone and das, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pencil
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Eagle Pencil Company In 1902 another pencil company began to offer up crayons. (13 words)
Use a soft pencil (my favourite is Jones Road The Best Pencil (above, £22, jonesroadbeauty. (15 words)
And if you want to know where you are, you can just make a mark with a pencil. (18 words)
If you own the Apple Pencil and use it together with apps like Procreate, you probably know that you can use the Apple Pencil to act as a color picker where you can select colors in images within the app and replicate said colors. (44 words)
The big upgrade would come from the new Apple Pencil stylus for the new iPad Pro, where according to a patent discovered by AppleInsider, would pack haptic feedback, as well as the ability to detect how hard you're gripping the Pencil. (42 words)
A building referred to as an 'apart-uh' ( 아파트 main) is an 'apartment' (but in fact refers to a residence more akin to a condominium) and a type of pencil that is called a 'sharp' ( 샤프 main) is a mechanical pencil. (41 words)
After 12 hours of discussion, one of their number reached for a green chinagraph pencil – all that could be found at the time! (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
Use a soft pencil (my favourite is Jones Road The Best Pencil (above, £22, jonesroadbeauty.
If you own the Apple Pencil and use it together with apps like Procreate, you probably know that you can use the Apple Pencil to act as a color picker where you can select colors in images within the app and replicate said colors.
The big upgrade would come from the new Apple Pencil stylus for the new iPad Pro, where according to a patent discovered by AppleInsider, would pack haptic feedback, as well as the ability to detect how hard you're gripping the Pencil.
Apple has also improved its Pencil functionality with iPadOS, lowering the latency of the Pencil to 9ms and implementing an overhauled tool set for greater functionality.
KJ: In terms of a job that requires me to pencil and ink, it's certainly among the best, if not the best pencil and inking job that I've done.
A building referred to as an 'apart-uh' ( 아파트 main) is an 'apartment' (but in fact refers to a residence more akin to a condominium) and a type of pencil that is called a 'sharp' ( 샤프 main) is a mechanical pencil.
A pencil was inserted into a person's hair to determine if the hair was kinky enough to hold the pencil, rather than having it pass through, as it would with smoother hair.
Because the index of refraction is included, the NA of a pencil of rays is an invariant as a pencil of rays passes from one material to another through a flat surface.
Eagle Pencil Company In 1902 another pencil company began to offer up crayons.
It is a type of pencil where many short pencil tips are housed in a cartridge-style plastic holder.
Such games can be played either as board games or as paper-and-pencil games, while many other paper-and-pencil games cannot be played without writing utensils.
The first method, known as 'pencil blue' because it was most often applied by pencil or brush, could be used to achieve dark hues.
The resistance of a coating (also known as its pencil hardness) is determined as the grade of the hardest pencil that does not permanently mark the coating when pressed firmly against it at a 45 degree angle.
According to over 1,500 reviewers, it's excellent for making brows appear as natural as can be *and* lasts much longer than a pencil or brow gel.
After 12 hours of discussion, one of their number reached for a green chinagraph pencil – all that could be found at the time!
After applying eyeshadow, the actor applied mascara on her eyelashes and filled in her eyebrows using a brow pencil.
A month later, she was photographed in a similar version of the suit for a visit to St Mary's Hospital, only this time she swapped the wide leg trousers for a pencil skirt.
And if you want to know where you are, you can just make a mark with a pencil.
Another variant of it consists of picking up and dropping objects such as a pencil or a towel.
Apple Pencil (2nd generation)(opens in a new tab) is on sale for $85 at Amazon as of May 25. That's a savings of 34%.
Common combinations with pencil
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- apple pencil 37×
- pencil and 20×
- the pencil 18×
- pencil to 11×
- pencil or 11×
- with pencil 9×
- pencil skirt 7×
- in pencil 7×
- and pencil 7×
- or pencil 7×