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Recent Examples of pencilIn its announcement post, Nvidia highlighted early adopters and evaluators across blue-chip names in e-commerce, industrials, and tech, suggesting near-term pilots that could convert into volume orders if returns pencil out.—Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025 Manager Rocco Baldelli will regularly pencil four of the Twins’ own first-round picks (Lewis, Trevor Larnach, Matt Wallner and Brooks Lee) and one second-round pick (Luke Keaschall) into the lineup the rest of the way, and only Keaschall is an official rookie (and tearing it up).—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025 After a brief foray into honey blonde territory, Palmer has been rocking spicy red hair for a while now, wearing it in voluminous curls, but this is a whole other look, and now her eyebrows are penciled to match.—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2025 Over in Singapore, non-oil domestic exports shrank 4.6% in July from the year before, worse than the 1.8% contraction penciled by economists polled by Reuters.—Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pencil
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