(n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
(n.) A crayon drawing.
(n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
(v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(2) Each subject selected one of six color crayons (red, yellow, green, blue, brown, or purple) to color the boy "to look" angry, happy, or sad.
(3) And when I began to write, at about the age of seven – stories in pencil with crayon illustrations, which my poor mother was obligated to read – I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading.
(4) During these years in Italy, Twombly's output sometimes reflected developments in the rest of the world: for example, as minimalist artists were creating a stir in America and Europe , in the late 1960s Twombly executed six monochrome canvases, the Treatise on the Veil, which are completely blank apart from measurements written in crayon over the grey paint.
(5) The Indonesian broadcasting commission has told RCTI, the private television network that airs the Crayon Shin-chan series, to either cut “indecent” parts of the programme or show it at a later time, when it will be missed by many in its target audience: young children.
(6) When I was eight or nine in kindergarten, I told stories about this weird kid in class who drew with black crayons.
(7) In the second group, the children were given the same promises, but they received the crayons and stickers as expected.
(8) Keita sent me a picture of the concept, a drawing he’d done on the top of a cardboard box in crayon,” recalls Hunicke.
(9) Children in the first group were given small boxes of crayons and promised larger boxes, which failed to materialise.
(10) Chip Lambert only sees the hopes for his absurd film script through the same eyes as the reader when he notices that the paper the film producer has given to her daughter for her crayoning ("ivory coloured" with "text on its reverse") is indeed that very script.
(11) Pictures of the bunks show crayon etchings of houses and smiling faces, hopeful images that could have been drawn by children in schools anywhere in the country.
(12) From the ink lines of a shirt pocket with spectacles poking out in a 1968 sketch of Christopher Isherwood, to the Fair Isle pattern of a jumper worn by Ossie Clark in an almost smudgy crayon picture from 1970 , clothes often feel part of the Hockney narrative or atmosphere.
(13) Crayons (2008) was her first studio album of new material for 17 years, and reached the US top 20.
(14) It’s like the partition of India – they just got a blue crayon out.
(15) The hinds were run with crayon-harnessed stags from insertion of CIDR devices (12 March or 9 April) and blood samples were taken every second day to determine plasma progesterone.
(16) She remembers how one mother would leave paper and a crayon in the hole for her daughter.
(17) With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqué spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades.
(18) It is the refusal to get dressed when you're in a rush, to brush their teeth, to use crayons on paper only, and not on the floor and furniture.
(19) They’re ‘anar-chics’, delinquents of the crayon and pen.” Zineb el-Rhazoui retorts: “People say we should respect religion, but our attitude to religion is the same as it is to any other ideology.” Willem keeps saying he has to go, but Florence offers him another glass of Côtes, and he stays.
(20) I really don’t see why they’re in such a rush to whitewash some of the work that I have done, and who I am and how I’ve identified,” Dolezal said on Tuesday, adding that at age five she “was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon”.
Drawing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draw
(n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.
(n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.
(n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
(n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
(n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Example Sentences:
(1) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(2) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(3) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(4) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
(5) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(6) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.
(7) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(10) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
(11) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
(12) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(13) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(14) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(15) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(16) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(17) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(18) On examples from their own practice the authors draw attention to the that the diagnosis and treatment of this disease is not always as straightforward as might appear from the literature.
(19) Consequently, assaying the enterobacteriaceae contents is not suitable to draw any reliable conclusions upon the salmonellae contents of fishmeal.
(20) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.