How to Use in pencil in a Sentence

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• The progress is all recorded in pencil on a kitchen wall at his house.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
• Any plans for this season should have been written in pencil, not ink.
  — J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• The letters are short, to the point, printed neatly in pencil.
  — Ellen Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Plan a future trip in pencil, leaving yourself plenty of time and space to change things.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
• Finally, the stories first sketched out in pencil many years ago can start to be written in ink.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2021
• My planning is really just a lot of notes compiled in pencil in the back of my notebook.
  — Emma Straub october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
• The grocer and counter clerks would take down orders in pencil on the back of the sacks, grind coffee beans, weigh out sugar and flour, and so on.
  — Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• The final section in pencil, pastel and collage depicts the feet of a wooden doll set upon a sort of pedestal.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
• An endpaper ripped out of one of the old books was on the table, someone having scribbled in pencil, Stay off.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• Many parents record the history of their children’s growth on a wall or door frame, etching the lines in pencil or marker with dates alongside them.
  — Ellen Rosen, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• The painting, which was sold with a certificate, is signed in pencil by Charles with the year marked 2001.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022
• My mother marked our heights in pencil on the closet door and my father yelled at the radio when Barry Bonds struck out.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
• Coronavirus is forcing every level of organized football, from the pros to preps, to go from plans in stone to plans in pencil.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 July 2020
• The painting, which was sold with a certificate, is signed in pencil by Charles with the year marked as 2001.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
• Any such list of potential doomsdays should be written in pencil, since the future is reliably unpredictable.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• Charles made the painting in 2001, and the print is signed and dated in pencil, according to the auction listing.
  — CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
• Written out in pencil, Seanelle could clearly make out an address in Minot, North Dakota.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.
  — April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
• But more than a month before those games are scheduled to start, conference contingency plans probably belong in pencil rather than headline type.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2020
• In Baker’s archives are countless images of the library, rendered on construction paper in pencil and crayon.
  — April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
• The books in pencil were the real numbers, and the books in ink showed a lesser profit, for the Internal Revenue Service.
  — Bert Stratton, wsj.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Sargent carefully indicates most of the detail in pencil lines, with simple brushstrokes of gray wash against the warm tones of venerable marble walls and pilasters.
  — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• The New Yorker The artist scribbled gags in pencil on her ink-wash cartoons, touching on themes of romance, motherhood, and body image.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Professional makeup artist Colby Smith encourages us to think of eyeshadow sticks as cream shadows in pencil form.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
• Playlists written in pencil could be erased and rewritten as a predilection for the Pretenders gave way to the allure of the Allman Brothers Band.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
• Hall sketched it in pencil before architects at Florence, Italy’s Studio 63 rendered it to be produced on-site.
  — Caitlin Kelly Ella Riley-Adams Megan O’Sullivan Arden Fanning Andrews Angela Koh Zoe Ruffner, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Around 120 animators from around the world collaborated on the animation, which was drawn first in pencil and then inked over and hand-painted.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Major League Baseball schedule may as well be written in pencil nowadays, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2020
• Cézanne is known to have produced more than two dozen self-portraits, though almost all of them were completed after the 1860s and were largely executed in pencil.
  — Oscar Holland, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
• As of Wednesday morning, the Alabama roster for the Sugar Bowl remains written in pencil.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 7 Dec. 2022