The narrow road took them through a mass of scrub pine, holly, oak and river birch with its bark unraveling like pencil shavings.

The casing of the sharpener is the repository for the pencil shavings; it needs to be emptied periodically.

I had a friend who ate pencil shavings.

As the wines age they can sometimes develop aromas associated with cedar, cigar boxes and pencil shavings.

It can also seem nutty, with earthy, musk flavors, or taste like pencil shavings.

They also consume foods that are inedible to humans (cleaning fluid, pencil shavings and insulation during the movie).

They smelled like pencil shavings, that same odor of wood and graphite combined.

Lincoln swept the pencil shavings from his lap; and put away his knife.

On closer inspection, the colorful species turned out to be made out of pencil shavings, so I wasn't far wrong.

The most common ones are smells - pencil shavings, freshly cut onions, mouldy fruit.