I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pencil/ink/charcoal etc drawing (= done using a pencil, ink etc )
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I like to do a few pencil drawings when I go away anywhere.
eyebrow pencil
mechanical pencil
pencil case
pencil pusher
pencil sharpener
pencil skirt
propelling pencil
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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Therefore the basic submission that a blue pencil should have been applied throughout the interview was rejected.
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Across the bottom of each handbill, in blue pencil , Soo wrote Milk.
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Cut by a royal blue pencil Points of Order.
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There was a peanut-butter jar that held pencils , yellow eraser-tipped pencils and the blue pencils for drafting.
soft
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Here I have used a soft pencil to describe the birds after tracing them out.
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Try lining the upper lids with a soft sage eye-contouring pencil .
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I always use a soft pencil as it glides over the page.
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Then transfer your measurements to the face of the card using a soft pencil .
■ NOUN
case
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I can't remember a word of his, but mine concerned a red fluffy pencil case named Biscuit.
drawing
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Another picture, a pen and pencil drawing , is a more devastating exposure still.
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On one side, underneath the writing in ink, is a small pencil drawing of an animal.
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This was also necessary in order to obscure all traces of the original pencil drawing .
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This method can give all the nuances of a pencil drawing .
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These pieces are engraved with the delicacy of a fine line pencil drawing .
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A late pencil drawing by Vaughan, 1967, depicts naked male figures, crouching and climbing.
eyebrow
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Yves Saint Laurent No. 3 eyebrow pencil .
sharpener
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His leg sort of jams into the plastic like a pencil into a pencil sharpener .
sketch
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What is this pencil sketch that looks like a ground plan of the radio factory?
skirt
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Belted suit and long slim line pencil skirt with split, in raspberry, teal and black, £69.99.
■ VERB
draw
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Until he was 70 he drew in pencil and in pen and wash with great neatness.
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This was before she found, on the sole of her shoe, a heart drawn in pencil .
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I draw in pencil on to the board and then work directly into the drawing.
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When Nechita was 2, she started drawing and coloring with pencils , pen and ink and crayons.
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Keeping the string tight, draw the pencil around the foci.
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Sometimes teachers I know draw little pencil lines here and there in the books.
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We drew pencil ellipses; we copied the arcs made by the tops of flower vases.
hold
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One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might.
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It may also show how well the child pays attention or how comfortable a child is holding and using a pencil .
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Their coordination is less well-developed, too: they find it harder to turn somersaults or hold a pencil properly for long.
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He also threatened her by holding a sharpened pencil tip to one of her eyes.
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There was a peanut-butter jar that held pencils , yellow eraser-tipped pencils and the blue pencils for drafting.
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He did not have good fine motor control, holding the pencil awkwardly and frowning slightly as he drew.
pick
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Claudel picked up the pencil , finished his task.
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Let me pick up a pencil .
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Ralph picked a pencil out of her pencil cup.
sharpen
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Philip sharpened one of his pencils that Lee must have broken, sharpened it too much and the lead broke again.
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R.: an ordinary clipboard and a sharpened yellow pencil .
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Livesey is quite capable of looking after that particular angle, and no doubt he is sharpening his pencil for this purpose already.
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I used to take candy bars, little toys, sharpened pencils , anything small and easy to mail to school.
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Pursuivant sharpened his pencil , opened his notebook, and wrote down the date.
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He also threatened her by holding a sharpened pencil tip to one of her eyes.
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She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer, sharpened her pencil and got down to work.
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I arrange my papers in an orderly fashion on my driftwood desk and sharpen my pencils , as I always do.
tap
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He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish.
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He tapped the pencil tip on the paper.
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She stood over her desk, reading the notations on the jacket, tapping a pencil on a pad.
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No patient has ever reported being tapped with a pencil point, for example.
use
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I use the pencils for techniques such as cross-hatching, contour and scribble drawing, shading and frottage.
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It may also show how well the child pays attention or how comfortable a child is holding and using a pencil .
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I will use my pencil light from the base of the big tree just before I make the run.
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However, Sean performed poorly on tasks that required him to use a pencil or pen to perform copying assignments.
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Here I have used a soft pencil to describe the birds after tracing them out.
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If they used a shorter pencil , they had to apply more force because they were pushing closer to the fulcrum.
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There are so many varieties of technique, style and tone that you can use with a pencil .
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How could you use the pencils to help you lift the books?
write
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The third is written in pencil and partially erased.
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The letter is written in pencil , as is the address on the outside.
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I still have a letter written in pencil from his camp at Laisamis on his way to Nairobi in 1914.
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There was something written in pencil on the back.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
indelible ink/pencil/marker etc
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All voters' hands will be dyed with indelible ink, and both the vote and the count will be conducted locally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a red pencil
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another picture, a pen and pencil drawing, is a more devastating exposure still.
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Anyone got a pencil and paper?
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As the children arrive, give them a pencil and paper and ask them to join one of three or four groups.
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Friedman argued that no single person, even a Nobel laureate, could make a pencil .
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Let the students see that the student is able to cover both sides without lifting the pencil .
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The teacher's cool pencil charts normal against the brown of the girl's cheek.
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There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I found her name penciled inside the back cover of the book.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hearing has been pencilled in for September 17.
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Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far.
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She can pencil in the weight she hopes to be at the end of each month.
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We may pencil in the forest and the ponds.
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We wander through it like Casaubon, clutching lists we've pencilled on the backs of envelopes.
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With clear signs of a recovery, analysts are pencilling in a modest profit for the full year.