He has put his blue pencil up for good now.

A blue pencil should have been squeezed into the budget.

If that girl so much as sharpened her blue pencil, I'd like to know when.

Publishers want to make money and order editors to take out the blue pencil.

I even made copies, and marked them up in blue pencil, according to your notes.

A mark with a blue pencil, against one of the advertisements, attracted my attention.

Above and below were two highway routes, marked with a blue pencil.

Soon it looked like a blue pencil, its point resting on the meteorite's surface.

Around one was a circle, marked in blue pencil.

The surveyor placed a circle on the map with a blue pencil.

The term stems from the act of editing written copy with a blue pencil.

He had recognized the blue pencil link from the time of his first visit to the penthouse.

He worked alone at his desk for three hours, reading and making brief notes with a large blue pencil across the printed pages.

Someone had scrawled over it in thick, blue pencil the single word, "Denied".

Brian could write truth for Whitaker with a blue pencil and be damned!

With a blue pencil he had checked off the various names and organized them into the proper categories.

You wonder if any editor ever saw it, and if so, what stayed his or her blue pencil.

You can use a light blue pencil for guide lines as it won't photograph, but be neat anyway.

Cut by a royal blue pencil Points of Order.

Therefore the basic submission that a blue pencil should have been applied throughout the interview was rejected.

But this time she made it blue, since she was using her blue pencil.

Blue pencil is also used pejoratively to mean censorship.

This blue pencil was found with his body."

But-he was certain he had not used a yellow or blue pencil, although there had been a few.

He drew a line across the editorial, but the blue pencil stroke seemed tired and ended in a blur.