drawing

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "a pulling," in various senses, verbal noun from draw (v.). The "picture-making" sense is from 1520s; of the picture itself from 1660s. Drawing board is from 1725; used in figurative expression from mid-20c.

Example Sentences fordrawing

"Yes," said the captain, drawing from his pocket a large wallet.

May she draw a husband, while drawing her water, as Rachel did of old.

The end of Mr. Gladstone's first ministry was now drawing near.

"In spite of it and because of it," he said, drawing up a chair near to her.

I had no means of preserving a specimen, but I took a drawing of one.

"Out from the shadow then," said the other, drawing his sword.

As might be expected in a first essay, the drawing is now over-minute, now too loose.

As soon as he was gone, Kitty jumped up from the drawing table.

The affair which has given us so much anxiety is drawing to a happy conclusion.

These were the first pictures that Ben had ever seen, except those of his own drawing.

drawing

extraction

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figures

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line drawing

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