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Example sentences for "sketched"

Lexicographically close words:
skeptics; skerries; skerry; sketch; sketchbook; sketcher; sketchers; sketches; sketchily; sketching
  1. There are people who still believe that in all this they see sketched the very determinations, maxims, and rules which are to be found deliberately carried out in Mr. Disraeli's actual career.

  2. His critics themselves unknowingly admit this in one part of their clumsy strictures, since they can find events so very recent as his naming of the Queen Empress of India, and his appropriation of Cyprus, sketched in his early novels.

  3. Pirot is sketched in silhouette beside the lady.

  4. His portrait is sketched by La Vigoureux: 'he wore a ruddy wig, was ill formed, clothed as a rule in grey, with a cloak of homespun.

  5. The artist has given her a froglike expression, but no doubt he sketched her under the influence of a preconceived idea.

  6. He is not appalled by the immensity of the task which he has sketched out for himself and his followers.

  7. The joint stock company has had a long history which can only be briefly sketched here.

  8. I shall take a few of the qualities with which the previous pages have concerned themselves and show how they work out in individuals mainly sketched from life.

  9. Thus in education, a fact to be learned, or a subject to be studied, should be first sketched or placed in some use value to the student.

  10. Sketched in this very broad way we see masses of people, rather than individuals, and we are not finely adjusted to our subject.

  11. The vivid picture-writing of the early worship, filled with living attitudes, and sketched in the freshest colors of emotion, explained itself to every eye, and was open to every hand.

  12. If so, Jesus sketched an object of contempt when he drew the father of the prodigal son, opening his arms to the poor penitent, and needing only the sight of his misery to fall on his neck with the kiss of welcome home.

  13. It is a memorable scene, sketched to life for the metropolitan press.

  14. The painter seized his pad and pencil and with a few strokes, guided by inspiration, sketched the costume then and there and held it up to Jethro, who blinked at it in astonishment.

  15. By these tokens we may perceive that this faculty of our heroine's has been at work, and her canvas already sketched in.

  16. The sills of her windows outlined themselves, and a blurred foliage was sketched into the frame.

  17. This History, as to its essential features, might, a priori, be sketched with tolerable certainty.

  18. The actual history furnishes facts and details which only confirm and enlarge what, in its essential features, we have sketched a priori.

  19. The Ideal may be sketched in our fond fancy, and the attempt to realize it began by living a higher, nobler, purer life.

  20. We must not waste our time in admiring the beautiful picture which Miss O'Connor sketched for us; we must get at the bottom of the mischief which has been going on.

  21. In short, they were inseparable, and scarcely ever apart; and one day Kate opened her heart to Molly, and showed her that picture which she sketched so graphically for us all to-night.

  22. It might have been sketched for that of a young philosopher--a Galileo or a Priestley, with the heavy, strongly-marked brows.

  23. This quaint knot of ruinous houses in a weed-grown Court was sketched at Bruges.

  24. Wants to be sketched in at once--Vive la France!

  25. The two stages of Greek thought which we have sketched did more than to readjust Greek life to deeper views of the State and the individual; of the good and of nature.

  26. In Part One we sketched the historical course of this development; in Part Two we traced its theoretic analysis.

  27. The color note is strikingly adapted for public performance, and perhaps Schumann was correct in believing that Chopin had originally sketched this for piano and orchestra.

  28. Some of them appear like briefly sketched mood pictures related to the nocturne style, and offer no technical hindrance even to the less advanced player.

  29. Schumann thinks "Chopin sketched the whole of it, and that Franchomme said 'Yes' to everything.

  30. One of them, doubtless, when reading the well-known name of Monsieur de Bergenheim upon the wrapper, sketched the animal in question.

  31. Several large books and numerous manuscripts were spread out upon the table in the library, together with a wide sheet of Holland paper, upon which was sketched the family tree of the Bergenheims.

  32. These two phases of policy may best be cursorily sketched at this point.

  33. The first thing to decide in the matter of figures is their arrangement and grouping, and when this has been determined they should be sketched in lightly in pencil.

  34. It is difficult to say which is the harder to draw, a tree or a human figure; and if the student has not sketched much from Nature either will prove a stumbling-block.

  35. I have sketched and described it in my Pilgrimage (iii.

  36. They are also called Namáz-gah and one is sketched by Herklots (Plate iii.

  37. He sketched in a few words a letter which would be innocuous.

  38. My draft was written before these reports were spread; and I only, from anxiety to have the despatch well written and soon, sketched what I thought would do.

  39. He sketched after the Raffaelles, and he copied small oil paintings by other celebrated masters.

  40. It sketched the history of the venerable edifice, and contained marked allusions to Nonconformist ministrations within its walls during the Commonwealth.

  41. Alice wanted to know whom she was likely to meet at Wanley; and Mr. Keene, in a light way, sketched for her the Waltham family.

  42. Dissipation' too; to her pure mind the word had a terrible sound; it sketched in lurid outlines hideous lurking places of vice and disease.

  43. He jumped nimbly up, and sketched the stiff and limping figure he had seen.

  44. Munt sketched rather a flattered portrait of the elder Mavering, his ability, his goodness, his shyness, which he had always had to make such a hard fight with.

  45. Sketched in Cote Doñana--"Getting under way.

  46. We sketched and preserved both specimens, see p.

  47. That is, we have frequently found one of a nesting pair in the paler plumage described, while its mate gloried in the rich sable-black of maturity, as sketched on p.

  48. The scenery and manners sketched with much feeling, taste, and judgment, in an animated style.

  49. Norwegians and Laplanders are here sketched in an interesting and pleasant manner.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sketched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.