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[skech] / skɛtʃ /




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For those in that camp — who never give up hope that a great sketch is just a commercial break away — here’s what you can expect from the new season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Perhaps Mitchell and Webb's best known sketch, which sees them both dressed as Nazis while begging the question: "are we the baddies?"

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

In a post to X on Monday, the "Turn Back Time" singer wrote: "My dear Bob has gone up to heaven. Knowing him, he's bringing sequins, beads and his sketch pad. Good nite sweet Prince."

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

“I just have to finish this sketch and FedEx it off to Paris, then, how about you and I go out to lunch—and spend the rest of the day getting lost in Harrods?!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

He tried to sketch the streets of Lisbon, but he couldn’t get the effect he wanted on flat paper.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Tommy Brennan and Kam Patterson both seem like they need to make their mark in sketches and do more than just perform as themselves in “Weekend Update” segments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I was just in awe of Bob’s creative workshop with fabrics, sequins, rhinestones and sketches coming out of every corner of his workspace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Herzen’s character sketches and aperçus amount to an intellectual and political history of Russia and Western Europe in the first two-thirds of the 19th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The rock art which the Lost Land Bridge Project has uncovered includes engravings on the cave walls, paintings in ochre and charcoal and line sketches indented into clay and earth by fingertips.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

At the library, Mr. Powell had spread one of my sketches of the Arctic Tern out on a table—one of the big sketches, as big as Audubon’s.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

Margaret Keane’s big-eyed children gaze unabashedly at a girl sketched by Pablo Picasso, and cartoonist Rose O’Neill rubs elbows with Vincent van Gogh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

According to Terekh, the first ideas for what would become the FP-1 drone were sketched on a napkin in their favourite restaurant in late 2022.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Burnham's team say having sketched out his vision he will be able to continue to work out who he places in key roles in his cabinet.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Director Craig Gillespie is no stranger to turbulent filmmaking, and his “Cruella” commendably made an underserved villain into a fully sketched character, without overrelying on callbacks.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

“The spittin’ image,” Mr. Sloan said when he saw the portrait that Osh had sketched.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

In her song Wi$h Li$t, from her last album, Swift fantasised about settling down with Kelce, sketching out an idyllic future in which they have "a couple kids" and "a driveway with a basketball hoop".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Partis was also sketching the heron as he watched.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

In sketching an outlook that might include either further cuts or a pivot to hikes, Waller joins a growing group of Fed officials who see the central bank’s policy stance at an inflection point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Here Mina and her friend Lucy Westenra sit among the graves, sketching and talking, later, watching clouds gather for the storm that would bring the Demeter, and Count Dracula, to Whitby.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

One day during recess—while doing some stick sketching in the dirt—I took a deep breath and plunged ahead.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea




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