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sketch

[skech] / skɛtʃ /




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Joining the BBC in the 1990s, she rose to prominence as part of the team behind the broadcaster's sketch comedy, Goodness Gracious Me!

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

I’m drawn to the uncanny specificity of its suggestions, each one paired with an AI-generated sketch of myself and my loved ones actually doing those things.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

But so far, Tetlow noted, Warsh has been reluctant to even begin to sketch that out.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Taeyong has used the occasion to sketch a large, detailed star and skull on his.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day’s sketch to wish to go on.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Famous for its walls bearing scribbles and sketches left behind by patrons for over 60 years, El Batey, a bar in Old San Juan, is a Puerto Rican institution serving locals and tourists alike.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

She suggests looking for affordable vintage oil paintings, exhibition posters or framed sketches at antique markets, then securing them with command strips so they can be removed without leaving holes in the plaster.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Ullom has a few silly sketches on YouTube, and even scored a partial investment from a subscriber, but he hasn’t posted on the platform in more than five years.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

They could even convey the rules they had discovered through gestures or sketches.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Many of his sketches were done in pen and ink, a medium that captured his most intimate thoughts with admirable directness.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

But in an “ideas forum” at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in July he sketched out some basics for what he calls “Cuba Day Zero: Stabilization, Reconstruction and the Path to Investment.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 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

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 EFL says that it makes contingency plans for all of its matches at Wembley, so alternative arrangements had already been sketched out before Spygate emerged.

From BBC May 19, 2026

Afterwards, in the cold, almost unheated train compartment, I sketched on the blank edge of my newspaper what I remembered of the B pattern.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

At the Art Institute of Chicago, a survey of the Abstract Expressionist’s work demonstrates how central sketching was to his practice and how creatively he approached it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

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

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

When the phone rang at two o’clock, waking Lexie at last, Mia was back at the table sketching with a pencil on a scratch piece of paper.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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