pen
/pɛn/ verb C2- To write (an article, a book, etc.).
- To write or draw on (a surface) with a pen.
He/she/it pens · Past penned · Past participle penned · -ing form penning
Verb forms
- Base form
- pen
- He/she/it
- pens
- Past
- penned
- Past participle
- penned
- -ing form
- penning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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"Try it yourself, Holmes!" he has retorted, and I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader.
“Stop a bit,” said the abbé, taking up what he called his pen, and, after dipping it into the ink, he wrote on a piece of prepared linen, with his left hand, the first two or three words of the accusation.
Spada, a prudent man, and greatly attached to his only nephew, a young captain of the highest promise, took paper and pen, and made his will.
“Look!” said Faria, showing to the young man a slender stick about six inches long, and much resembling the size of the handle of a fine painting-brush, to the end of which was tied, by a piece of thread, one of those cartilages of which the abbé had before spoken to Dantès; it was pointed, and divided at the nib like an ordinary pen.
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