How to Use sketchbook in a Sentence

sketchbook

noun
  • This sketchbook was about a pigeon that wants to drive a bus.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • But aside from those, there’s nothing artistic about the sketchbooks.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Kids are pampered with child-sized bathrobes, plush toys, pastels, and a sketchbook.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2024
  • So the whole thing with this journal slash sketchbook is just to start doing something.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Treat your nails like your sketchbook with this simple yet detailed design.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 19 Feb. 2026
  • And those sketchbooks are what got me a scholarship [to Chouinard].
    — Cauleen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Kabaker’s sketchbook painting of her yard, with the deck from the cover on the right.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Matt kept a sketchbook of shapes, symbols, logos and words and phrases.
    — Nick Keppler, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • The whole collection is based on sketches from my sketchbook.
    — Andrea Cheng, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2017
  • So in a, in a past life, sure, the, the pull to go skiing was greater, then drawing in my sketchbook.
    — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
  • These three drawings, pencil on paper, were in my sketchbooks there.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 June 2018
  • The rooms even come with a sketchbook and ukulele for guests who want to channel their inner artist during their stay.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Most of Brophy’s works on paper are no bigger than sketchbook pages.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • My parents were constantly giving me sketchbooks and stuff to draw on.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
  • So dust off your sketchbook, pick up some effervescent tablets and get busy building.
    — Scientific American, 22 June 2018
  • Alongside the war photos were stacks of my father's sketchbooks and some loose pages of writing.
    — Liz Goldwyn, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2014
  • Brown dropped off a sketchbook and some graphite pencils, but Hambling hasn’t picked them up often.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 May 2022
  • On one page from Saar’s Haiti sketchbooks, earth tones overlap a Haitian postage stamp.
    — Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The journal is a combination of a diary and sketchbook, with a mix of lined and blank pages.
    — Yamillah Hurtado, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One sketchbook opens into a puzzle; another is cut in the shape of a sandwich.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Out came a young man, who, glancing at my sketchbook, sat down next to me and asked the lady for a bottle of water.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The sketchbooks are the seeds for her inspirations for paintings.
    — Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • One of the artist’s sketchbooks, from the archive of his work assembled by his supporters.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • Wirsum began drawing, using a sketchbook, a pad of paper and a pencil.
    — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021
  • Selections from his huge cache of sketchbooks Hair by Julien d'Ys.
    — Alexandra Marshall, Town & Country, 2 May 2016
  • It’s been soaked in the rain and still protected my books, sketchbooks, and other precious, fragile items.
    — Grace Smith, Peoplemag, 10 July 2024
  • Snag a leather sketchbook used by his character starting at $268.
    — Ben Meyerson, RedEye Chicago, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Some of these drawings and sketchbooks from her early years will be on display in the exhibition.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • All her raging monsters are sprung loose after her sketchbook falls into a magical pond.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Did your time spent in the actual places, with the sketchbooks that seem important to you, aid these qualities?
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023

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