| Alf was a complete duffer when it came to mechanical things such as refilling a ballpoint pen. |
| Twist the black band, and a yellow highlighter tip emerges around and past the ballpoint. |
| Such basic irritations do not even occur to us when skating across smooth manuscript paper with a ballpoint pen. |
| My cheap ballpoint scratched across the page, and as soon as it was lifted off, my name was called to the audition room. |
| This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink. |
| To help him, I hold his pen, and click the ballpoint in and out, so it won't go effete and lazy between clues. |
