pencil stub English

Meaning pencil stub meaning

What does pencil stub mean?

pencil stub noun

— tiny pencil

Examples pencil stub examples

How do I use pencil stub in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This is a pencil.

Do you have a pencil?

This is a pencil and that is a pen.

Give me back my pencil.

Tom didn't have a pencil.

I forgot my pencil case at home.

Do you have a pencil about you?

You dropped your pencil.

Can I use your pencil?

Put down your pencil.

Put down your pencil and listen to me.

I've lost my pencil.

I have lost my pencil.

Have you got a pencil?

Please write with a pencil.

Write with a pen, not with a pencil.

Please write your name with a pencil.

You nearly poked me in the eye with your pencil.

News and current affairs

If you announce that you intend to balance the books over five years and pencil in a lot of spending cuts, consumers, relieved of their fears of future tax increases, will start spending more freely.

It took thousands of people all over the world to make this pencil, Friedman said - to mine the graphite, cut the wood, assemble the components, and market the final product.

More than 30 years later, there is an interesting coda to the pencil story (which in fact was based on an article by the economist Leonard E. Read).

A modern-day Friedman might want to ask how China has come to dominate the pencil industry, as it has so many others.

Yet the tens of thousands of workers that pencil factories in China employ would most likely have remained poor farmers if the government had not given market forces a nudge to get the industry off the ground.