How to Use sketch in in a Sentence

sketch in

verb
  • Padilla doesn’t even stay up late to get her sketches in.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 May 2026
  • To be acknowledged in a sketch in a funny way felt nice.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • To be acknowledged in a sketch in a funny way felt nice.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Hang abstract art against a log wall or frame vintage sketches in lucite.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Did Conan film alts of the finale sketch in case another film one best picture?
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Swiftly remove your clothes so that you can be sketched in pencil by the untrained artist sitting beside you.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Meat Suit begins with a sketch in which three childless friends await a fourth, who’s recently given birth, at a café.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Good call having this fellow do two sketches in such labor-intensive makeup.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Later that week at the gallery, Roberts shows me some of Saar’s costume design sketches in person.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • There is something charming, comical, even cartoonish about the scene sketched in these verses.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Mario, originally called Jumpman, started as a sketch in his notebook.
    — Alexander Kaplan, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Kimmel apologized for using blackface in a sketch in 2020.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Rocky made his debut during a May 2018 sketch in the episode hosted by Donald Glover.
    — Anna Chan, Billboard, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Grande fittingly hosted the episode in a diva-off with musical guest Cher, both of whom shared the stage with Yang in his last on-air sketch in the main cast.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The video opens with Lil Uzi Vert as a Lagerfeld-like figure (note the fingerless black leather gloves) sketching in his dark atelier.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Kate McKinnon recalls someone giving up on a sketch in the middle of rehearsal.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The two women’s powerful, mysterious bond is sketched in sharp yet subtle dramatic strokes that are all the more thrilling for their breathless rapidity.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The movie-trailer framing and Padilla’s exaggerated reactions and line readings kept the sketch in the realm of comedy.
    — Erik Adams, The Atlantic, 10 May 2026
  • The concept was initially sketched in 2015 and realized as a full-scale prototype in 2022.
    — Faye Bradley, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • While the creators at the NFL game were filming a wacky sketch in the end zone, Mohan was watching from the sidelines, beaming at the access his platform gave them.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine a small business owner deciding among a group of varied AI tools from one platform, with efficiency and ease, over a cup of coffee, design sketches in hand.
    — Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Per the coroner’s office, investigators generated a forensic facial sketch in efforts to identify the woman.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • He was featured in many of the show’s comedy segments, including a spinoff of the popular sketches in which George Washington attempts to educate soldiers about his new country’s language and customs.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Hannah Brown was a prominent purveyor of anti-Karen content, setting most of her sketches in restaurants with unreasonable customers and unhelpful management.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Speaking to Parade in 2018, Ferrell shared that Mattias had started getting into his old SNL sketches in the sixth grade.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In the sketch in question, SNL host of the week Glen Powell plays a groom-to-be who invites Maniscalco (as played by Hernandez) to his bachelor party.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The final sketch in which SNL newcomers figured was a historical one offering explanation for the complexity of the Spanish language.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The mega-hit Netflix movie was at the center of a sketch in Saturday’s SNL season premiere, with host Bad Bunny playing a man named Thomas who was obsessed with the movie.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, Saturday Night Live recently panned Palantir in a sketch in which the company’s software accidentally targets a runaway mechanical bull, mistaking it for a drug-smuggling boat.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • In the book is a sketch of a Bitter CD done on the back of a yellow envelope Ruzzin sketched in 1971 while working in Germany at Opel Design for Dave Holls.
    — Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025

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