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sketch English

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sketch

A sketch is a simple drawing. The artist made a quick sketch before he started painting the real picture. Here is a sketch of an aeroplane. A sketch is a quick description of a person, or of something that happened. He gave me a sketch of the incident, stating only the main facts. A sketch is a short piece of acting, usually funny. The best part was the three-minute sketch about the cowboy who couldn't ride a horse.

sketch

If you sketch something, you make a quick drawing of it using a pencil or a pen. I sketched his face quickly before he woke up. If you sketch something, you describe it without many details. The policeman asked me to sketch the accident while he took notes of what I said.

sketch

(= study) preliminary drawing for later elaboration he made several studies before starting to paint a brief literary description make a sketch of sketch the building short descriptive summary (of events) (= outline) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of sketch the outline of the book outline his ideas (= cartoon) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

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Conjugation sketch conjugation

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sketch · verb

Examples sketch examples

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Simple sentences

The police asked the girl to make a rough sketch of her lost dog.
Once the sketch is completed, ink it with a nib pen.
Do you think you could describe the man you saw to a sketch artist?
I'll use the top concepts as a starting point for our continued ideation, sketches, sketch models, etc.
Tom ripped a page out of his sketch book.
Tom says he knows someone who's a good sketch artist.
This project grew out of a sketch I made on a napkin at a party last year.
This sketch is representative of Tom's style.
Draw me a sketch of the first floor.
The police have a sketch of the suspect.

Movie subtitles

Just a minute-- jim: You remember my dramatic sketch, Mr. Smith?
Paul, where's that sketch you made of her?
You're taking long enough for that sketch.
Well, you're not a very easy subject to sketch.
I made a sketch so we don't make the same mistake as last time.
You've done a sketch of Sibyl.
Even a rough sketch to match her beauty would do.
I want to get a closer look and sketch her.
Would you like a sketch, Sir?
A little sketch of the young lady.
A sketch of the monster.
A sketch for a dress.
I only saw a sketch Mr. Brown.
Don't you ever sketch men?
This is a sketch of the victim's room.
I've been making a sketch of you.
Editors, secretaries, other sketch artists, you know.
She saw a sketch of Monteiro's hat. I didn't.
I'll get my sketch book.
I always mean to sketch you with your hands in your hair.
Can you maybe make a sketch of it?
STEVE: Here's a sketch of the interocitor. I also have rough notes on its working controls.
You're a sketch, Mr. Sumner.
We'll do sketch for you.
Would you mind coming to the station - to assist with a sketch?
Well, you're not a very easy subject to sketch. Your.
It used to be a Vuillard sketch, but I made it disappear.
Don't you like the sketch?
Shall I start the sketch now?
I'll start the sketch now.
May I look at the sketch now?
I asked for a sketch, not a mural.
Did you get my little sketch?
While you do that, I'll measure and sketch him.
Here's a sketch of the doll.

News and current affairs

When international finance economists sketch this scenario, domestically oriented macroeconomists respond that it sounds like a case of incompetent monetary policy.
I give you this personal sketch because it is the best I can do to illustrate what care-giving entails, and why it is so crucial to everyone's life - and to the human condition more generally.
Given the island's complexity, and Cypriot sensitivity, it would be foolish for an outsider to try to sketch any future settlement.
While this might sound like an excerpt from a Monty Python sketch, it raises an important issue: should there be limits as to what prospective citizens are tested for?

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