grease pencil
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Sheriff’s officials maintained a map of evacuation areas covered with clear plexiglass and a grease pencil to mark it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
In a 1975 interview with the Central New Jersey News, Tucker-Foreman derided the grease pencil idea as “typical of the ‘public be damned’ attitude the industry takes.
From Slate ● May 30, 2024
From there he made the initial drawings for what became his most famous building, the Wave House, using a grease pencil to sketch its curving, wavelike roof directly onto his longboard.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022
He tied a red grease pencil to a piece of string and taped it next to the map.
From Salon ● May 4, 2019
In the next picture the oak tree outside my aunt’s boardinghouse is captured, in grease pencil, at change of season, the leaves all reds and golds.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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