In drawing, a template can be a wood, plastic or metal tool that is used to help make marks with a pen or pencil.

He's making microscopic notes with a ballpoint pen, light ink-squiggles on the back of the picture.

Ames paused, looked at a yellow pad in front of him, and made a note on it with a pen.

Where the record was made in ink with a pen, the term pen register emerged.

The first rough drawings were made with a felt-tipped pen, and then photographically reduced to be able to judge the design at the right size.

She opened a manila-bound file, began making notes with a ball-point pen as she continued her thorough examination.

His hand made notations with a pen.

In two minutes I made six pictures with a pen, and they did the work of the eleven catch-sentences, and did it perfectly.

Lincoln made some flourishes in the air with a pen.

The city has to be run by a hard man, not by someone who makes magic with a pen.