propelling pencil BrE
mechanical pencil AmE

He helped pioneer the use of plastics to make mechanical pencils.

The mechanical pencil I was reading with at the time is still marking my place.

"I need these," Tatianna said, referring to a set of mechanical pencils.

With a mechanical pencil he lightly circled a few more pictures.

Vollmann is pleased with a chance to try out a new mechanical pencil he bought this afternoon.

Many teenage girls began to write laterally using mechanical pencils.

The tool itself looked like a big, fat mechanical pencil.

Andrew rolled the mechanical pencil between his palms, praying he was doing the right thing.

I remember Jace telling me how his dad only used mechanical pencils.

Taking the paper from Martinez he placed it over the equations and began to scratch the surface with the mechanical pencil.