sketch
noun
a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
had sketched
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past perfectof sketch.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Around 1485, Leonardo da Vinci had sketched a firing mechanism that dispensed with the need for a burning match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
I was looking at the proportions that Medin had sketched out which show these long, stringy figures.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
By December 2021, the U.N. had sketched out a draft plan, estimated to cost $80 million.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
His artistic career took off in the mid-1950s when he produced a series of paintings of rocks and trees he had sketched one summer in Maine.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
I had sketched the sun sinking over the horizon.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
