How to Use ballpoint pen in a Sentence

ballpoint pen

noun

• Who knew a ballpoint pen could be used in a fight to the death?
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
• It’s a cylinder, kind of like the size of a ballpoint pen.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
• Petro points to a fresh track in the dirt, a paw print measuring nearly the length of a ballpoint pen.
  — Christina Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• The cooling device is a thin tube as long as a ballpoint pen.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020
• This species gives birth to live young, which are a mere .04 to .08 inches when they’re born—about the size of a ballpoint pen tip.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2020
• My script was just white with black type and hardly any ballpoint pen.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• And also, watching the game with a ballpoint pen in hand to do my best to practice on timing when to ring in.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2022
• That said, this pen is a ballpoint pen instead of a gel pen, so the ink is not quite as durable and can bleed through some papers.
  — Sherri Gordon, Verywell Health, 21 July 2023
• Some of the positions are rendered in what looks like ballpoint pen.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• It’s done with three different types of blue ballpoint pen.
  — John Ortved, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
• His pictures from that time are in blue ballpoint pen on pieces of paper torn out of notebooks — that’s all Kostenko had.
  — Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• My weak, tingling hand could barely hold a cheap ballpoint pen.
  — Longreads, 4 Mar. 2020
• The selfie shows the 13-year-old with his hair braided, staring at the camera wide-eyed as his dad tries to take his braids out with the help of a ballpoint pen.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
• The state also sent more than one million ballpoint pens so voters can use their own pens to sign the poll book and mark a ballot.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• Diners are still given a ballpoint pen to mark their selections on the menu.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
• Rossi boops their snoots with a clicky ballpoint pen, and the fish—which are amphibious, and can survive on land for weeks at a time—backflip out of reach.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
• Into the catheter, a surgeon injected a steel bead slightly larger than the ball of a ballpoint pen.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2012
• Finally, place it pencil side down and trace over the letters using a ballpoint pen, which will transfer the graphite to your wood.
  — Grace Gallagher, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2022
• What inspired Yoakum to put colored pencil and ballpoint pen to paper at the age of seventy-one?
  — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
• Think of the zipper, the ballpoint pen or the paper clip — items designed out of frustration with the existing order.
  — cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020
• In place of the generic stic precision ballpoint pens that came with nearly every bill in the days before the Square app, a sleek two-toned pen appeared.
  — Devra Ferst, Bon Appetit, 5 July 2017
• Voters are encouraged to bring their own black ballpoint pen.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2020
• The MasSpec device looks like a swollen gray ballpoint pen with a thin tube snaking out one end that connects it to a mass spectrometer and a supply of solvent.
  — Jen Monnier, Scientific American, 17 May 2021
• Premier Li Keqiang once quipped that despite its billions of pens produced each year, China still cannot make the ball in a ballpoint pen.
  — Ling Chen, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• Chips in a cell phone are an example of core technology components, just like engines in a plane — or the ball in a ballpoint pen.
  — Ling Chen, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• More than 1 million black ballpoint pens are being distributed so that each voter can have their own pen.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• Along with the book, the president also received a set of Duofold pens—a fountain pen, a rollerball, and a ballpoint pen—in the Queen's exclusive design.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 3 June 2019
• And when an assassin with a machine gun crashes into his apartment, a weaponless Bourne knows how to subdue the guy with a ballpoint pen.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 15 June 2022
• An origami dinosaur folded from green paper; a single, lonely stiletto; a list of reasons to stay in the U.K. scrawled in ballpoint pen.
  — Eliza Dumais, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2023
• In 1954, the first roll-on antiperspirant debuted, inspired by the ballpoint pen.
  — Cassie Shortsleeve, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024