sketch
noun
a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
is sketching
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present progressiveof sketch (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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What the film captures are mirror images of whatever he is sketching.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
The presumptive Democratic nominee is sketching out an increasingly detailed portrait of the kinds of people he would surround himself with if he became president.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020
She is sketching the face of a cat, mimicking the image in a nearby book, yet her gaze is aimed off-screen, as it were, as if she were drawing from direct observation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2019
The Federal Reserve is sketching out plans to prevent an abrupt contraction in its massive balance sheet next year, when some $500 billion in bonds expire and risk disrupting markets and the U.S. economic recovery.
From Reuters ● May 7, 2015
The buried trench seems to be leading us down and down into the tumult of some infernal workshop, whose dark-red glow is sketching out our huge and curving shadows in purple on the walls.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
