Example Sentences
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During the walks to the 15th and 17th tee boxes, the pre-prepared European players pulled out blue sharpies from their back pockets and scrawled away.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025
Money managers and market observers don’t know what is happening in your portfolio, and their job typically involves trying to keep big-money investors happy despite the short attention spans those sharpies have.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2021
They act out a talent competition in an abandoned auditorium and create their own arts and crafts project out of soccer balls and black sharpies.
From The Verge • Sep. 5, 2019
“I was making it a lot prettier than it is to start with,” DeFoe said of his Storm Arashi Vibe lipless “rusty paw” crankbait, which he decorated with orange, red and black sharpies.
From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2019
Like Mamet characters, they populated an America that had never existed, a kid’s idea of sharpies and hucksters and underworld life.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
