pencil sharpener

noun

: a device used to make the tip of a pencil sharp so that it can be used for writing

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Some sets also come with extra supplies like a second eraser or pencil sharpener. —Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 June 2025

The main event, however, occurred when two men climbed to the top of some scaffolding with an oversized red pencil sharpener in tow. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2025

This creature had a mouth resembling a pencil sharpener and roamed the seas over 500 million years ago in search of prey. —Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 May 2025

An electric pencil sharpener is a must-have for those who love to sketch. —Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2024

Before the session starts, office equipment and binders are taken out of desks and the now exotic whirl of a pencil sharpener can be heard in the background. —Ben Jacobs, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024

The announcement arrives two months after Greenwood joined Instagram, where his first few posts featured his dogs and a pencil sharpener. —Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024

For roughly two years, Connelly has been on a mission to track down every interesting historical tool, book, clock, photo, pencil sharpener, cotton sample and stop-action motion picture camera still lurking in the thousands of rooms that make up the USDA. —Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023

There are no knickknacks, no works of art; the only appliances are a coffee maker and an electric pencil sharpener. —New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021