sketch

Example Sentences

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The previously unknown, red-chalk sketch is one of only a handful of Michelangelo’s surviving studies still left in private hands; the rest are in museums.

From The Wall Street Journal

Their rapport is no secret, given that the two spent years performing alongside one another on the Canadian sketch show “SCTV” before continuing their collaboration in Guest’s films, and later in “Schitt’s Creek.”

From Salon

Experts at Christie's say it is a foot sketch of the Libyan Sibyl which was later painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

From BBC

Jeremy began to sketch, slowly at first, then with growing enthusiasm.

From Literature

Constable’s oil sketches, most unintended for public consumption, could be just as large and daring, and were prized for their extraordinarily loose paint-handling, transient atmospheric effects and true-to-nature palettes, the fruit of his plein-air practice.

From The Wall Street Journal