Creating new space with a ruler and a sharp pencil is easy.

It looked as if someone had drawn an 18-inch-long line on the light wall with a sharp pencil.

Bob had a notebook and a couple of sharp pencils.

I'm glad someone had the concept clear in his head when he set out to change her life with one sharp pencil.

It was done with a sharp pencil and machine oil.

He taps at a point on the list with a sharp pencil.

She uses a sharp pencil to make notes on her eating plan for the week.

"That's a nice sharp pencil you have there," I told him.

"We have to look at this with a very sharp pencil."

"We try to keep a sharp pencil on the bottom line," he said of the town's $14 million proposed budget.