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sketching

  • present participle
    of sketch.
    sketch
    noun
    a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.

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In the 1930s and ’40s, three friends—all artists, one almost a generation older than the others—spent their summers here, sketching and painting the picturesque environs of America’s oldest continuously operating seaport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

For years following, back in the U.S., he traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard sketching or painting as many of the signers as were still to be found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

In her song Wi$h Li$t, from her last album, Swift fantasised about settling down with Kelce, sketching out an idyllic future in which they have "a couple kids" and "a driveway with a basketball hoop".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Here Mina and her friend Lucy Westenra sit among the graves, sketching and talking, later, watching clouds gather for the storm that would bring the Demeter, and Count Dracula, to Whitby.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

He was sitting in his usual spot, sketching, while a red-faced man droned on and on.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate