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  • verb Present participle of crayon.

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Examples

  • Chip Lambert only sees the hopes for his absurd film script through the same eyes as the reader when he notices that the paper the film producer has given to her daughter for her crayoning ( "ivory coloured" with "text on its reverse") is indeed that very script.

    The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen John Mullan 2010

  • That peaceful euphoria mothers are encouraged to feel each time they look at their children came to me once in a blue moon, almost always when they were asleep and incapable of shrieking, hurling their Spider-Man accessories, or crayoning a mural on a silk-covered wall.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • That peaceful euphoria mothers are encouraged to feel each time they look at their children came to me once in a blue moon, almost always when they were asleep and incapable of shrieking, hurling their Spider-Man accessories, or crayoning a mural on a silk-covered wall.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Bouncing about in the front room to a very right-wing conservative in black face was how I liked to unwind after a busy day spent crayoning, reading The Tiger Who Came To Tea, and avoiding a boy called Shane in my class who always had thick green snot oozing from his nostrils and liked to get his classmates in a headlock.

    Proust has a lot to answer for 2009

  • Bouncing about in the front room to a very right-wing conservative in black face was how I liked to unwind after a busy day spent crayoning, reading The Tiger Who Came To Tea, and avoiding a boy called Shane in my class who always had thick green snot oozing from his nostrils and liked to get his classmates in a headlock.

    Proust has a lot to answer for 2009

  • Caroline was curled up in an easy chair reading a book, and John was lying on the floor, crayoning in a coloring book.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • The MPs seem to spend their time crayoning dragons on Union Jacks and getting pissed on the cheap in subsidised bars.

    Islwyn Labour backs Tory rule 2007

  • Caroline was curled up in an easy chair reading a book, and John was lying on the floor, crayoning in a coloring book.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • I accompanied him to the park for a picnic and a bit of crayoning enjoyment;

    Mind Hacks: April 2006 Archives 2006

  • I accompanied him to the park for a picnic and a bit of crayoning enjoyment;

    Mind Hacks: A very modern reality 2006

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