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Example sentences for "crayon"

Lexicographically close words:
crawls; crawly; craws; crayfish; crayfishes; crayons; craythur; crayture; craytures; craze
  1. The black crayon could be very black indeed.

  2. One could use the crayon to print on the valentine too.

  3. Only one would need black paper—” “Take dark paper and crayon it black,” cried Jimsi.

  4. Draw the bird’s side outline with crayon on the white part of the paper and cut the bird out with scissors.

  5. While in England Rosalba painted many portraits in crayon and pastel, in which art she was not surpassed by any artist of her day.

  6. She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

  7. With ironic impudence the message was scrawled in red crayon upon the reverse of one of Jonathan McGuire's neat trespass signs, and nailed to the tree by an old hasp-knife.

  8. He was staring at the red crayon scrawl and as he said nothing more Peter turned toward the door, where Stryker stood on guard.

  9. The "kind of" was advanced hesitatingly, with an apologetic side glance at the big crayon portrait.

  10. When he was opposite the atrocious crayon enlargement of his wife an expression of supreme content settled upon his features.

  11. Holloway, from the crayon drawing by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

  12. Crayon drawing, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, from the first-mentioned painting.

  13. He has had what he calls an 'artistic fit' lately, set up a studio, and is doing some crayon sketches of us all.

  14. Beulah, in a discontented tone, as she took up the crayon and retouched the poppies which clustered in the sable locks.

  15. Silently the elder artist put the desired crayon in his hand.

  16. He pointed a crayon at Peter Quick Banta's creation.

  17. A crayon portrait of my father by George Richmond is one of his finest accomplishments.

  18. In the little parlor of the Amesbury home there hangs a crayon sketch of her.

  19. Here he finds behind the picture a secret arras-door, behind which sits a female form with an open souvenir and three rings on her left hand, and a crayon in her right.

  20. The improvement to which you refer is denominated "The Crayon Daguerreotype.

  21. The "Crayon Daguerreotype" is an improvement made by J.

  22. Instead of using lines drawn with a crayon to suggest a certain object, you replace these lines with match sticks, bent and straight, and so obtain nearly the same effect.

  23. They had been bred upon Addison and Goldsmith, the essayists and the poets of the eighteenth century, and in Geoffrey Crayon they recognized and welcomed another member of that delightful literary society.

  24. A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.

  25. Fine Art) Defn: A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

  26. In crayon and pastel drawings the colours of the objects represented are more or less completely represented in the medium.

  27. Several chalk crayon studies have been done for this portrait.

  28. There he was able to resume his work and drew a crayon group of his mother and sister as well as two separate drawings of his sister and one of his mother.

  29. The "Bower Meadow" represents two women playing instruments and two dancing figures, for which he made charming crayon studies.

  30. In the same year (1866) he painted in oils a portrait of his mother, and made a large crayon drawing of his sister Christina.

  31. Also doing crayon portraits at two francs fifty a head," and he pointed to the sign beside the poster of Cleofonte breaking the chains which advertised the nature of his talents in glowing terms.

  32. She demurred at first, but she was pretty and knew it, and Philidor's tongue was persuasive, his nervous crayon eloquent.

  33. Presently, when she sat beside him to rest, he brought out a pad and crayon and made a drawing of her in her cap and bells.

  34. It was the one which bore the crayon portrait of the man who had tried to blow up the two airships at the Midlothian grounds.

  35. Now, however, Borden began to create, line by line, and curve by curve, as perfect a human face as Hiram had even seen done by an expert crayon artist.

  36. The ability to handle the crayon and to simulate well the writings under discussion is a great aid.

  37. And if the tint or coloring of the paper should have been affected by his cautious touch, he takes the proper shade of crayon or water-color, and carefully replaces the original shade.

  38. The Emperor had sent in the morning a life-sized crayon portrait of himself by Lenbach as a present.

  39. Except in his memory no images of the dead babies endured, and this crayon portrait was the sole sentimental reminder left to him of his married life.

  40. His glance travelled slowly from the crayon portrait at the foot of the bed to Jeff Poindexter's chocolate-coloured face and back again to the portrait.

  41. On peut le voir, dit on, a minuit, dans sa place habituelle, tenant le journal du soir, et ayant a sa main un crayon de charbon.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crayon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.