sketch
/ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ verb B2- To make a brief, basic drawing. · I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
- To describe briefly and with very few details. · He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
He/she/it sketches · Past sketched · Past participle sketched · -ing form sketching
Verb forms
- Base form
- sketch
- He/she/it
- sketches
- Past
- sketched
- Past participle
- sketched
- -ing form
- sketching
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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In ten more we were seated in the parlour of the inn and being treated to a rapid sketch of those events which have been outlined in the previous chapter.
“Magister praised the sky in that sketch I made in the park,” said Joe.
Joe was enthusiastic about some morning-effect sketches he was doing in Central Park, and Delia packed him off breakfasted, coddled, praised and kissed at 7 o’clock.
He saw the sketch in Tinkle’s window and thought it was a windmill at first.
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