pencil something/someone in

pencil | American Dictionary

pencil
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈpen·səl/
a thin, usually wooden, tube-shaped device for writing or drawing which has colored material in the center and a point at one end:
[ C ]colored pencils
[ U ]Make your corrections in pencil (= using a pencil).

Examples of pencil

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The tips of the pencils are" cognitively salient", and what is seen of their relation determines the child's communicated beliefs about length.
Expertise about the underlying nature of pencils does not figure in the way ordinary people interact with pencils.
In other words, people continue to treat pencils completely instrumentally.
In this scenario, our interactions with pencils are transformed as a result of the discovery of their animate nature.
Experiences are not public objects like trees or pencils or clocks.
We give the child two pencils of equal length side-by-side, and he correctly judges them to be the" same size".
A despondent artist once rose from sleep and penciled in a fat man on the highest point of the pyramid in the sketch.
Consider two possibilities in the light of the discovery that pencils are living organisms.
The child was allowed to play freely with watercolor pencils and crayons.
As the second scenario shows, even the startling discovery that pencils are alive need not have metasemantic implications.
They continue to relate to pencils as items designed to assist them in achieving their goals.
We ow restrict our attention to simple pencils, where symmetric or not.
The scientific discovery of the animate nature of pencils might have semantic implications as well.
In the first scenario, the discovery turns out to have a profound impact on ordinary speakers' daily transactions with pencils.
When he gets home, he goes into his little office and takes out a lot of paper, a few pencils and a big eraser.
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Collocations withpencil

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These are words often used in combination with pencil.

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graphite pencil
Writing is best done with a fairly soft black graphitepencil.
grease pencil
The game used a laminated board which could be written on with a greasepencil.
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