Barbers keep styptic pencils on the shelf to quickly stop small nicks from bleeding.

The artist carried several lead pencils in her sketchbook for shading.

She sketched the landscape with a lead pencil before inking the final lines.

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

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

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

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

The pencil-pushers in accounting refused to approve the creative ad campaign.

The carpenters' pencils, tucked into the side pocket of his tool belt, left precise marks on the oak before the first cut.

She stored her china pencils in a small tin next to the easel.