sketch
noun
a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
has sketched
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present perfectof sketch (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The company has sketched out a future in which Starship is flying thousands of times a year, regularly deploying satellites and other payloads for customers and SpaceX’s own Starlink internet division.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Since covering the 1980 assassination of an Iranian dissident in Washington DC, he has sketched for all manner of cases but mostly covers criminal cases.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
His collection of stories includes one called “Lice Scratching,” which seems to be told from the vantage of a woman Jones has sketched only briefly earlier in the novel.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
He has sketched out some elements of his $2 trillion approach for transforming U.S. transportation systems and electrical grids in his campaign climate plan and in his infrastructure proposals for Congress.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
On the back of an envelope left beside the museum phone, she has sketched an enormous tree, laden with flowers, the branches squirreling over the flap.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
