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Topics drawing topics
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What words refer to something that has been drawn or painted?
Examples drawing examples
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Simple sentences
She is drawing a picture.
He's drawing another picture.
Picasso kept drawing pictures until he was 91 years old.
Would you mind drawing down the blind?
Is this a picture of his own drawing?
The month is drawing to an end.
I was ushered into the drawing room.
I am poor at drawing.
The game was drawing to an end.
Spring is drawing near.
He is drawing a picture.
She posed for a drawing.
She hung a little Picasso on the wall of the drawing room.
Evening was drawing near.
This drawing is less than great. He needs to do something with the line here at the back of the leg.
The New Year was drawing near.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
The days are drawing in.
She succeeded in drawing the truth from him.
Christmas is drawing near.
Tonight, we had fun drawing up our family tree together.
He has a gift for drawing.
Whose drawing did you like?
Movie subtitles
There was, like, an energy - drawing us together, you know? - Yeah.
The man in the drawing on the wall in Peru.
The small angular symbol, noticeable under the drawing, was usually carved into the barn door as protection against witches.
In this old naive drawing, a sorcerer and a witch are casting spells, setting a village on fire.
Well, I made a drawing of the whole place showing the hills. It's a built-up scheme, without cutting down the hill or having it get in the way.
Though it looks as though it might be drawing close.
If you ever got into a drawing room, you'd step on a sliding rug.
You know what to do in a drawing room?
Case, are you drawing me out?
Watson would you have any objection to drawing the blinds casually as if you were alone in this room?
Take a look for drawing pins in your chair.
I'm not drawing up any more contracts for you.
If you can't get a drawing room.
Ah, go to the drawing room, girls.
In the evening of March the 30th the last drawing is finished but it is stolen during the night.
Sh. shall we go to the drawing room, Father?
She would like you to join her in the drawing room.
I'll send one back to my family, just the thing for a Mayfair drawing room.
I've done plenty for you and the Star. but there's a time to draw a line, and I'm drawing it.
We'll go in the drawing room.
Won't be drawing any more bills.
Shall we go into the drawing room, ladies?
Drawing a clear boundary, and mutual distrust.
Well, I made a drawing of the whole place showing the hills.
Drawing me won't make you any money.
I.. have taken the liberty. Of drawing up a partnership contract.
She resembled a Watteau drawing. and I was afraid. because she also resembled a Lautrec pastel.
And we certainly have had desires that are not confined to a drawing room.
The colonel has been drawing wonderful cards.
News and current affairs
However tempting it may be to solve the puzzle by drawing new borders or establishing new entities, this conundrum cannot be resolved in terms of sovereignty.
With careful management, Turkey may find itself drawing closer to Europe, while rebuilding its relationship with America.
This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America's resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran's backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.
As the actual number of truly heinous crimes has in fact fallen, increasingly it is small-time hoodlums, drug users, and mentally ill people who have been drawing long spells behind bars.
The evidence of what Nazi Germany did is so powerful that those who deny it can probably be dealt with even without putting them in prison and thereby drawing more attention to them than they deserve.
The US ought not to shy away from wider use of IMF Special Drawing Rights.
A US-backed Israeli-Syrian peace could transform the strategic environment, potentially drawing other Middle East spoilers into a system of regional cooperation and security.
Meanwhile, Italy's top bureaucrats are the highest paid in history, according to OECD data, with several retired officials drawing larger pensions than former US presidents receive.
Of course, one isn't likely to meet them in the drawing rooms of Paris journalists or the wider European professional political class.
In December, the International Monetary Fund will consider adding renminbi to the basket of currencies that comprise the Fund's unit of account, known as Special Drawing Rights, alongside the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen.
Will China be welcomed, or humiliatingly rebuffed, in its effort to persuade the International Monetary Fund to include the renminbi in its unit of account, Special Drawing Rights (SDR)?
They can help to expose the truth about life in Daesh - that it is brutal, corrupt, and prone to internal purges - in several ways, including by drawing attention to defections.
Only the makers of highly specialized equipment, perhaps for exploration under Siberian conditions, might have grounds for drawing on the compensation fund.
The Volt's battery will be a cutting-edge, high-performance lithium-ion battery, which promises a range of 40 miles per charge and a six-hour recharge time drawing from a normal wall socket.
Last week, IMF staff formally recommended adding the renminbi to the basket of currencies that determines the value of its so-called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
The EBRD made an important contribution to the economic transition process in Eastern Europe; there's a good case for drawing on its experience and expertise to help the southern Mediterranean.
The centrality of hereditary succession in the quest for peace and stability was shown by Hafez al-Assad when he agreed to unprecedented good will gestures aimed at drawing Ehud Barak's Israeli government into a peace deal.
Such a solution is readily available in the form of Special Drawing Rights (SDR).
Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.
Some people - and even a few politicians - are drawing the right conclusions from this.
Reducing US agricultural protectionism significantly would be an equally positive measure in drawing the poison out of diplomatic relations.