Illustration: At the dining table in a Japanese apartment, a person uses a retractable ballpoint pen to draw a tiny likeness of their sleeping dog on a plain scrap of paper. Their relaxed grip leaves the pen's barrel, pocket clip, push-button end and narrow metal cone exposed.

ボールペン

boorupen

ballpoint pen

Example sentences

ボールペンのインクがなくなった。
My ballpoint pen just ran out of ink.
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ボールペンで書かいてください。
Write with a ballpoint pen.
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このボールペンは２ドルで買かった。
I bought this ball-point for two dollars.
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