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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

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

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Whitney Houston’s powerhouse version stands alone, but Dolly’s quieter, mournful ode to her collaboration with Porter Wagoner is the artful, formative sketch to a colossal mural.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

We see Holbein’s image of Anne multiplying through an 18th-century oil portrait; Jacob Houbraken’s 1738 engraving and a constellation of miniature copies; and Queen Victoria’s sketch of Giulia Grisi singing in Donizetti’s opera “Anna Bolena.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

I draw over them, making the sketch darker, firmer.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

For months after the attacks, the New York Times ran short biographical sketches of the victims—firefighters, flight attendants, bankers, restaurant workers, Pentagon employees.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

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

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

Osborne, who is best known for posting crude comedy sketches on YouTube, launched her podcast series earlier this year.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Arnold had brought sketches of the fortifications of West Point, which André, as an experienced intelligence officer, memorized and handed back to Arnold.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

Thatcher, though, was far and away the best part of both films, bringing a striking depth to her thinly sketched characters.

From Salon Aug. 17, 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

Contrary to popular legend, the diagram was not sketched on a napkin by Walt Disney himself, but rather by a Disney studio artist who created it for the story.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 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

It looks like he sketched them out in pencil and is filling them in with black pen.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 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

His guardian gave in and allowed a sketching and painting trip to Ireland instead.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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