pencil
/ˈpɛn(t)səl/ verb C2- To write (something) using a pencil. · I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
- To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
He/she/it pencils · Past penciled · Past participle penciled · -ing form penciling
Verb forms
- Base form
- pencil
- He/she/it
- pencils
- Past
- penciled
- Past participle
- penciled
- -ing form
- penciling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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In fact, the bullets had actually pierced the cards in the exact places which the painted signs would otherwise have occupied, the lines and distances being as regularly kept as if they had been ruled with pencil.
“Tell me,” continued he, “was he not about my height, perhaps a little taller, with his chin imprisoned, as it were, in a high cravat; his coat closely buttoned up, and constantly taking out his pencil?”
“Ah,” said he to Debray, who had thrown himself into an easy-chair at the farthest extremity of the salon, and who held a pencil in his right hand and an account book in his left, “what are you doing there?
I even took a pencil and jotted them down.
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