grease pencil
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Lanier leaned on his down-home Texas folksiness throughout the trial, telling the jury what was on his heart and scribbling with grease pencil on his demonstrative aids.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
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
Eleanor had decided to leave the dust jacket on because it was neat-looking, even though it still had a thrift-shop price scrawled on the front with grease pencil.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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