How to Use sketch in in a Sentence

sketch in

phrasal verb

• The film sketches in Jobim’s rise to fame, and Regina’s as well.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• Try to produce at least one sketch in the upcoming week.
  — The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
• The girl’s time in England is sketched in the background as her agency grows over the course of the trans-Atlantic voyage to Chesapeake Bay.
  — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Quickly sketched in pale hues, the buildings are very nearly a theatrical stage set.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Murphy offered her the sketch, which Rosenberg keeps among her own sketches in her New York apartment.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2024
• There would be more sketches in Edebiri and Sennott's future.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• The two horses face away from each other, rumps slightly overlapping, their outlines sketched in black.
  — Roger Lewin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• The sound of Lagerfeld’s incessant scribbling pen plays on the speakers overhead as a massive video projected on the wall shows the sketches in progress.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 4 May 2023
• Casual conversations sketch in the background of Matt and Chris.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
• With nearly 50 sketches in a season, the crew would get creative and find multiple ways to use the same location, without reusing the exact same set.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
• Why wouldn’t Madison Avenue try to get in on that fun and action, seeking to beat satirists to the punchline by making ads that, to some degree, can work as crowd-pleasing sketches in their own right?
  — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
• Where Jane feels thinly sketched in pastels, Corrine’s portrait has been detailed in bright permanent markers.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• The show’s primary antagonist is sketched in broad outlines as an Ammon Bundy-like white supremacist holed up on a Montana ranch.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 May 2023
• Generations of comedy performers have spent thousands of hours sweating where Michaels will place their sketches in the show’s lineup.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 June 2023
• While researchers suspect a child climbed onto scaffolding to draw this gladiator scene, sketches in a different room were probably drawn at the young artist’s eye level, per the statement.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
• Still, exhibiting unseen sketches in front of an audience with celebrities providing live commentary — rather than, say, throwing them up on YouTube — is pretty genius.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• Morton’s privileged but stifling youth in a wealthy, light-skinned New Orleans family is sketched in a series of numbers that efficiently establish the expectations of the Creole class and his rebellions against it.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• Officials recovered hundreds of sketches in Rader’s belongings after his arrest years ago, but with the help of experts, Virden’s team believes a few rare color images may depict more crimes Rader committed.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• Orion sketches in a book, and the sketches come alive — including murderous clowns, bugs and bees; cellphone waves; falling from a skyscraper; public humiliation; rejection; someone bullying him at school; and especially the dark.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024