Translations for „pencil sharpener“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

ˈpen·cil sharp·en·er N

pencil sharpener

šilček m

Usage examples with pencil sharpener

pencil sharpener

šilček

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One dress (well, half-dress) is cleverly crimped and seems to be spilling forth from an over-sized pencil sharpener.

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Do you start up the ladder by getting your own pencil sharpener before progressing to your own stapler and hole-punch?

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An early level based on a pencil sharpener, for instance, proved too limited.

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These days, the math teacher and habitual inventor is wrestling with the age-old problem of the pencil sharpener.

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Backstage, the hair and make-up rooms at the shows are hectic, sweaty, cramped, exciting places to be, with no time to dig around for a spare pencil sharpener.

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He describes a woodcock, a bird that has a long bill on it, that's like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener then pasting it on to a bird.

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An illustration of a mere aggregation would be the combination of a bathtub and a pencil sharpener.

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Somewhere along the line, the office boy devolved into an electric pencil sharpener.

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Strip it away and you still have a nice pencil sharpener.

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There is even a pencil sharpener of the old, installed-schoolhouse sort to help you kick your habit of plastic pens.

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