Example sentences for: sketches

How can you use “sketches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More opinionated than academic historians tend to be, he is also skilled at offering character sketches and at spinning out stories.

  • Harben was apparently a protégé of Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote the Uncle Remus stories; Northern Georgia Sketches is dedicated to Harris, "in grateful acknowledgement of the kindly encouragement which made this book possible."

  • The Tiber weaves among Corot's Italian sketches of the 1820s, and, like several of the other painters in the Brooklyn exhibition, he pays obligatory homage to the falls at the Roman resort of Tivoli.

  • Extrapolating on the theories of the Renaissance designer, Geofroy Tory, as expounded in his Champ Fleury (1529), Firmage takes Tory's sketches as the springboard for his analysis of the letter-shapes and the sometimes highly stylized forms they assume throughout history, from their inchoate inception in the Near East down to present-day, computer-generated typefaces.

  • He sketches one of Gauguin's Tahitian women and signs the portrait "Paul Picasso."


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