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Meanings of lead pencil in English
Pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core.
Russian
графитный карандаш Spanish
lápiz de grafito 
Synonyms
Examples for "mechanical pencil"
Examples for "mechanical pencil"
1
Putting down her mechanical pencil, Spencer gazed out the barn's large front window.
2
He scribbled the facts down with a mechanical pencil in a black notebook.
3
In his two hands he held a mechanical pencil and a small remote control.
4
His mouth is a small line, the width of a piece of mechanical pencil lead.
5
He found a mechanical pencil in his sweater pocket, opened the book to the flyleaf, and asked, 'What's your name?'
1
The book includes a set of colored pencils, a "Star Wars"-branded automatic pencil and marker, and a good eraser.
2
Automatic pencil with removable eraser to the right.
3
I don't even like to use automatic pencils.
4
"Try," Mrs. Levy said, making some sort of note on her date book with a rhinestoned automatic pencil.
1
It felt more like a drafting pencil was shoved halfway through to my esophagus.
2
She put down her drafting pencil and did something she'd sworn she'd never do at any job, ever.
3
I thought about my father, the architect, who saw fields and parking lots as blank canvases just waiting for his drafting pencil.
1
Interestingly the next picture shows a gold propelling pencil in the shape of a musket also dating from the 1880's.
2
I was one of those children who received an embossed propelling pencil and teaspoon at primary school to commemorate the coronation in 1953.
3
When the partner drew a diagram the Irishman moved it closer with the rubber of a propelling pencil so that he left no fingerprints.
Usage of lead pencil in English
1
His hands played with a lead pencil that lay on the desk.
2
Similar to lead pencil, and of even greater delicacy, is silver-point drawing.
3
When he returned, the message was written out in lead pencil:-
4
Instead of the traditional lead pencil, his hand covers a mouse.
5
He produced an old envelope and a lead pencil and scribbled.
6
John took a lead pencil and wrote the cable despatch which Wentworth received.
7
Wyoming already has women enough who write with a lead pencil.
8
Now mould out into rope-shaped pieces a little longer than a lead pencil.
9
I'll lend you a lead pencil, the back of an envelope will do.'
10
When the paper was removed the beeswax retained the marks of the lead pencil.
11
Gwen paused in the act of sharpening a lead pencil, and eyed the intruder.
12
The message, he concluded lamely, had been scrawled on the wall in lead pencil.
13
Wentworth hemmed and tapped on the desk with the end of his lead pencil.
14
The third support, placed at the apex of the triangle, was a lead pencil.
15
Grace sat poking holes in an unoffending sheet of paper with her lead pencil.
16
We both looked at the digits scribbled in lead pencil.
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Translations for lead pencil
Portuguese
Spanish
Catalan
Lead pencil through the time
Lead pencil across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common