The meaning of SKETCH is a rough drawing representing the chief features of an object or scene and often made as a preliminary study. How to use sketch in a sentence.

The art students were told to sketch the landscape. When I have some spare time, I like to sketch. The artist has sketched out a design for the new school.

1. draw, paint, outline, represent, draft, portray, depict, delineate, rough out I sketched the scene with my pen and paper. 2. summarize, give a summary of, give a resume of, go through the …

Simple past tense and past participle of sketch. Prince Andrew took out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the position. Roughly sketched, his argument is as follows.

to make a sketch or sketches of (something or someone): [~ + object] He sketched a quick drawing of the skyline. [no object] artists sketching along the river. to set forth or describe in a …

If you sketch something, you make a quick rough drawing of it. He sketched a map on the back of a menu.

Definition of sketch verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. [transitive, intransitive] sketch (somebody/something) to make a quick drawing of someone or something He quickly …