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sketch

[skech] / skɛtʃ /




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The Seinfeld star appeared in a Funny or Die sketch with Stodden in 2012, which parodied daytime talk shows such as Dr Phil.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Like your tax-filing status, what matters for general advice is a sketch of your situation, not the name of the company you work for or your exact salary.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

I don’t want to fat-shame anybody, but it reminds me a lot of the Monty Python Meaning of Life sketch where the guy says the weight for him blows up.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

The alumni-relations office emailed a winsome sketch of the school’s mascot, Jack the Bulldog, in party hat and surrounded by balloons.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

On it, I drew a pencil sketch of a shark, labeling the fins.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

A sketchbook from Whistler’s teenage years in St. Petersburg, Russia—where his father worked as an engineer—is an unexpected treasure in the show, and includes sensitive portrait sketches that establish Whistler’s skills as a draftsman.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

They are preserved within one bound volume of 41 sketches.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

All the while, he and creative partner Cooper Tomlinson were trialling content online, mixing comedy sketches on TikTok and Instagram with horror shorts such as "The Chair" on their YouTube channel "That's a Bad Idea".

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Podcasts, good hangs, and Late Night shows feed a never-ending amount of backstage drama and tales of never-seen sketches.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

“But,” said Kyle, “if we follow one of these sketches, our plane will end up being just like everybody else’s.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

He sketched an idea on the back of his nine-year-old daughter's homework, he says, and soon showed it to an architect, partly expecting him to "laugh me out of the room".

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

Each personal history is sketched with a revealing touch: Robbie, returned from war, had “loitered, not entirely fruitlessly, on the fringes of the London literary world, until coming to Honor via a family connection.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

The idea of a peninsular Macondo prevailed for a long time, inspired by the arbitrary map that José Arcadio Buendía sketched on his return from the expedition.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the 1930s and ’40s, three friends—all artists, one almost a generation older than the others—spent their summers here, sketching and painting the picturesque environs of America’s oldest continuously operating seaport.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

For years following, back in the U.S., he traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard sketching or painting as many of the signers as were still to be found.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

Partis was also sketching the heron as he watched.

From BBC Jun. 9, 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

Jesper laid down another series of shots, sketching a wild formation he hoped would disguise their location.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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