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He also said he was "pencilling in" three further increases next year, as interest rates returned gradually to "a normal level" of about 2.5%.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2017

Another was pencilling some calculations as to wind and light and other intricate details.

From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Churchill, Winston

Outside the birds were beginning to twitter and the dawn was pencilling the shutters.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

While he read the billet and was pencilling a second appeal for the privilege of escorting her to the rehearsal, she ran lightly downstairs, sprang into a carriage, and eluded him.

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

"What are you writing there, Cox?" said another, to the keen-eyed man, who was pencilling something on a card.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James