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Example sentences for "eraser"

Lexicographically close words:
erano; erant; eras; erase; erased; erasers; erasing; erasure; erasures; erat
  1. Goldmark passed the eraser over his slate.

  2. Sometimes it is necessary to sharpen the eraser with a knife or a pair of scissors before rubbing it on the emery paper.

  3. After the face and hair are completed as above, then finish the clothes with the peerless stump, eraser and fingers.

  4. In working with the eraser on the crayon paper do not rub hard enough to remove all the crayon from the surface of the paper, except in producing the high lights and the white of drapery.

  5. The large rubber eraser is to put in the broad effects of light in the background and dress.

  6. After the lines are in rub a piece of clean cotton over them all, using pressure enough to subdue them to the degree of indistinctness desired; then finish with the large eraser and crayon point No.

  7. The eraser is one of the principal instruments employed in making crayon portraits, and is used the same as if it were a crayon pencil, that is, on that principle, the difference being that you make white lines with it instead of black ones.

  8. The eraser is used by reversing the penholder in the hand, dipping the end in the fluid, and applying it, without rubbing, to the blot to be erased.

  9. Often on chair tips and in the cup-shaped eraser that goes over the ends of some pencils you can see the "fin," as the glassworkers call it, where the two pieces of the mould did not exactly fit.

  10. The pencil is now ready for sale, but many people like to have an eraser in the end, and this requires still more work.

  11. Beside him was the great panel of the mnemonic eraser with its thousand unblinking eyes.

  12. The mnemonic eraser can selectively shunt from the brain any identifiable category of memory, and erase the synaptic patterns associated with its translation into action.

  13. And all the time the thousand eyes of the mnemonic eraser flickered in swift patterns, a silent measure of the cells and circuits of his mind.

  14. It was quite simple to apply the mnemonic eraser to that small section without disturbing in any way her basic personality.

  15. It is then a simple matter for the mnemonic eraser to locate all permanently echoing frequencies involved in this personality and suck them into its receiver.

  16. Helen May threw her eraser at him and missed.

  17. Starr dismounted and picked up the eraser from under the investigative nose of a coarse-haired, ugly, brown and black dog that had been following Rabbit's heels.

  18. That's why I advertised for a professional eraser who was experienced, judging that it would fetch the person who had done Honeywell's work.

  19. You must, however, be sure of one thing: the pencil outlines must be just plain enough for you to see them without difficulty, but they must be dimmed with the eraser to such an extent that your audience cannot see them.

  20. If used as a blackboard illustration, an eraser will be needed.

  21. And as you have an ink eraser in metal and rubber you should be able to remove those which are wrong.

  22. His counsel claimed that the figure had not been changed, and that if the mark of an eraser was found, and that the figure 5 had been changed, it was caused by the accidental slip of an ink eraser used in the margin.

  23. Removing Tarnish [17] A pencil eraser will remove the tarnish from nickel plate, and the ink eraser will remove the rust from drawing instruments.

  24. On one wall of the room was a small blackboard, with chalk and an eraser in a box beneath it.

  25. He nodded his head, and Verbeck picked up chalk and eraser and turned to the blackboard.

  26. A Faber or multiplex pencil eraser is needed; also a sponge eraser with which to remove the light lines and clean the drawing before lining it in.

  27. She takes the eraser and chases him around the room to his seat.

  28. Any player who knocks over an eraser or who unclasps hands must take his seat, the erasers again being replaced.

  29. It is often interesting to have the last player required to erase all his team has written, or each child may erase his own writing, passing the eraser as he did the chalk.

  30. The girl then puts the eraser on a boy's desk, and the game continues.

  31. The leader has an eraser or other article which he places upon one of the desks.

  32. At a signal to start the first child in each row takes the eraser in both hands and passes it over his head to the child behind him.

  33. The runner then sits down in the empty seat and passes the eraser backward with both hands as before stated.

  34. The one finding the eraser on his seat rises and chases the leader.

  35. Again the eraser came into play to remove the cents after the figure "25.

  36. Next came the water color to restore the protective tint where the glass eraser and the acids had removed it.

  37. Near the bottles lay a rod of glass with a curious tip, an ink eraser made of finely spun glass threads which scraped away the surface of the paper more delicately than any other tool that had been devised.

  38. These transferred impressions may sometimes be removed by rubbing with an eraser made of bread crumbs or by soap-jelly, which should be left on for some time and then washed off.

  39. Each page is then examined for dirt or finger marks, which can almost always be removed, the quality of the paper permitting, with a soft pencil-eraser or bread crumbs.

  40. Eraser Holder Any small piece of steel with a point, similar to that shown in the sketch, will make a good eraser holder.

  41. The saving of erasers is nothing compared to the convenience of having a small eraser with a chisel edge or point when delicate erasing is required.

  42. A soft eraser should be used to remove the guide marks on the back of the sheet when the relief is finished.

  43. An Ink Eraser A good knife eraser for ink can be made from a discarded or broken ruling pen.

  44. Illustration: A Very Small Eraser can be Held on the Point and Used for Delicate Erasures] Bleaching Ivory A good method to bleach ivory ornaments is to rub on a solution made of a small quantity of unslaked lime, bran and water.

  45. He picked up the eraser as if to do what Meg asked, then dropped it and took up a piece of chalk.

  46. Bobby, who had stood as if paralyzed, the chalk in his fingers, turned and with a sweep of the eraser blotted out the rest.

  47. He must have patient endurance and sufficient strength of character to use the eraser heroically, for the eraser is mightier than the pencil in the drafting-room.

  48. Next to the noble knight of the eraser comes the idealist who has been toughened by experience in the cold world.

  49. However, an ordinary rubber eraser will be found very serviceable for removing rust.

  50. Always keep your pencils sharpened and have an eraser handy.

  51. Letters patent are asked, by applicant, for a new design for a rubber eraser, which consists in giving to the eraser a cylindrical body, with ends beveled to an edge.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eraser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chalk; ink; material; rubber; sponge