During the emergency training, the nurse demonstrated how to use caustic pencils to stop minor bleeding.

The nurse applied a caustic pencil to chemically cauterize a small skin lesion.

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

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.