sketch

Example Sentences

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Sure, you need some ingenuity and some luck, and that five-year plan you’ve sketched out is adorable, but what you really need is an organization that runs more capably than an eighth grade carwash.

From The Wall Street Journal

Interviewed on the podcast Top Traders Unplugged, White sketched out the problems facing advanced economies at present and delivered a disconcerting warning of the systemic failure he thinks may be in the offing.

From MarketWatch

If journalism is the first draft of history, TV news is a rough, improbable sketch.

From Los Angeles Times

The character even appeared at the beginning of one episode, in a cold open spot typically reserved for political sketches that focus on politics and the news of the week.

From Salon

Keeper of the archives and special collections at the University of York, Gary Brannan, described the sketch as a capsule of British culture "centred around the humour of being miserable at Christmas".

From BBC