sketch
noun
a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
were sketching
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past progressiveof sketch.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The Journal reported in October that White House and Pentagon officials were sketching out early plans for a “Golden Fleet” of new warships better suited to counter China and other potential threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
He and his friends were sketching out the contours of a new identity that had emerged in the late sixties: Asian-American.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019
While it was in progress, Regan and eight aides were sketching the next steps in what flowered into a publicity blitz unprecedented in this Administration.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were sketching a pattern for postwar cooperation among colonial powers.
From Time Magazine Archive
They said you were sketching; but I told them how idle you were.”
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
