Used in a Sentence

crayon

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for crayon.

Editorial note

The Pencil is more like a fat crayon, its latency is absurd, and its palm rejection only sometimes works.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crayon gathered in one view.

noun

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

noun

A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

verb

(ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crayon.

noun

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

noun

A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

verb

(ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.

noun

(dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.

Example sentences

1

The Pencil is more like a fat crayon, its latency is absurd, and its palm rejection only sometimes works.

2

The answer is that the set of crayon colors (e.g., red, blue, purple) is fixed and known to all parties.

3

I didn't color in the faces because I didn't want to use the brown crayon for that when everyone else was using the cream-colored crayon.

4

Re-reading my previous comment, one could misconstrue that my editor looks like a crayon box.

5

Pretty similar in principle to, say, the set of named Crayola crayon colors.

6

Scholars who embrace decentralized teaching/learning will have such a strong information asymmetry advantage they will make the academic output of universities look like crayon drawings.

7

It's like programming with a crayon on a dirty wall.

8

Profitable niches find competitors quickly (see: Seamless, whose mobile app makes Grubhub's look like a child's crayon drawings, and who in the end won and bought Grubhub).

9

Themes have nothing to do with that, but on the subject of themes they are no more an enhancement than wax crayon is on a fridge door.

10

You should browse crayon.co for product pages...

11

But she accepted my crayon drawing certificate.

12

Grab a crayon or a highlighter or whatever and some cheap paper and make a few messes until you have something that actually works, even in its shittiness of execution.

Quote examples

1

How much can I pay you to stop shooting "What's Crayon?" across my screen every time I load a page?

2

Comments include "They're probably lying," "This is like a parent posting their kindergartener's first crayon house-and-trees-and-sun drawings out into blogs," etc.

3

This reminds me of the Monty Python sketch: "This is a dog license, with the word "dog" crossed out and "cat" written in in crayon.

Proper noun examples

1

Crayon is a marketing design search engine.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use crayon in a sentence?

The Pencil is more like a fat crayon, its latency is absurd, and its palm rejection only sometimes works.

What does crayon mean?

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

What part of speech is crayon?

crayon is commonly used as noun, verb.