SKETCH in a Sentence

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For SKETCH, below is one of 84 sentences:
Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read.

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 Meanings and Examples of SKETCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sketch
 v.  draw or describe briefly; give the main points; summary of
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
2  They are wild to see the river, sketch the broken bridge, and copy some of the things they admire in my book.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
3  Laurie sat turning the little ring on his finger, and Amy put the last touches to the hasty sketch she had been working at while she talked.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
4  and Amy laid another sketch beside the one he held.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
5  Only a rough sketch of Laurie taming a horse.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
6  He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  I offered to sketch their portraits; and each, in turn, sat for a pencil outline.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  Everything, however, went on smoothly, and was finally settled according to Charlotte's first sketch.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
10  He had never so much as thought of making one, so far as his papers afforded any evidence; for there was no kind of hint, sketch, or memorandum, of any testamentary intention whatever.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
11  He was making a sketch for the figure of a man in a violent rage.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 10
12  A sketch had been made before, but he was dissatisfied with it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 10
13  Still, he took the sketch, laid it on his table, and, moving a little away, screwing up his eyes, he fell to gazing at it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 10
14  "Oh, I ought to give you a sketch of the company you will meet with us," she went on.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
15  After surveying the sketch critically she drew a broad smudge of paint across its surface, and crumpled the paper between her hands.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence:
1  My mother made a sketch of my brother reading a book.
2  It's just a sketch of the plan.
3  I will send you a slight sketch of the house.
4  The writer made his comic sketch seem banal, only a few people liked it.
5  She writes satirical sketches for a magazine.
6  The historical article sketched the major events of the decade.
7  Clare and David Astor are sketching a view of far Spanish hills.