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lead pencil
[led]
noun
a writing or drawing implement made of graphite in a wooden or metal holder.
lead pencil
/ ɛ /
noun
a pencil in which the writing material is a thin stick of a graphite compound
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lead pencil1
Example Sentences
Woolf ends up at a stationery shop on the Strand, where she purchases a single lead pencil before heading home.
A lead tablet and lead pencil found at the dig could have belonged to White himself, Dawson said.
Art supplies like lead pencils, barred as possible “dual use” for weapons, disappeared.
For artists still in Iraq under the sanctions regime, even lead pencils could be contraband.
They would stand on that rubble while leaving an inscription with a quill pen and ink or lead pencil on the vigas or latillas that make up the ceilings.
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