sketched

Example Sentences

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Sketched out as a region-wide scheme stretching from Halifax in the west to Pontefract in the east, Mass Transit is distilled down to just two lines costing £2.5bn.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

Sketched and scrawled in the open sky above the multitude are symbols, including ones derived from petroglyphs, and comments written by participants in a workshop Littlebird led.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

Sketched and shaded, mostly on lined loose-leaf paper, the characters are, with one exception, modelled on a friend of hers, Charles Weldon Carruth, a fellow undergraduate at the University of Alabama.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

Sketched with a generous empathy, he is the brother with “the darkest darkness in him.”

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017

Sketched upon the pall of soot downstream the outline of a burnt city like a black paper scrim.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy