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Example sentences for: pencil

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Walking through Smith's fantasy world of black steel, I found myself drawn to some of his softer, more tentative objects, like the handmade plaster web called Wingbone (from his daughter Kiki's collection) or a pencil sketch of confused sperm, tangled up (in a traffic jam?)
If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it.
Only Keswick thrived, primarily because of the pencil industry, for which it was world-famous.
But even better is the prospect that future studies may go on to show that writing may actually cure much of what ails us (except for writing-induced ailments like carpal tunnel syndrome or, if you're still using a pencil, writer's bump--that unsightly callus on your index finger caused by holding a writing implement).
A front-page LAT story and one inside at the NYT cover a sociological finding coming out today in the journal Science . It's well known that people will under-report their questionable behavior when asked about it by an interviewer, but it has long been assumed that this problem was addressed by conducting surveys via paper and pencil questionnaires.