In the morning light, the pencil trees cast thin, striped shadows across the courtyard.

The pencil tree in the courtyard shed milky sap when one of its branches snapped.

After the art fair, the supply closet was stacked with new pencil sharpeners waiting to be distributed to the students.

She adjusted the pencil pleat curtains so the sunlight filtered evenly across the room.

The pencil pushers in the accounting department insisted on following the outdated procedure.

The editor spent the afternoon red-pencilling the manuscript to prepare it for publication.

I bought a pack of pencil leads for the mechanical pencil I use at work.

The editor was blue-pencilling the manuscript when the author arrived, hesitating over which paragraphs to cut.

The editor was blue-penciling the contract to remove any ambiguous clauses.

The editor is red-penciling the manuscript to highlight areas that need clarification.