Sentence examples for sketching from inspiring English sources

The Resolution Foundation avoids sketching out what the human implications of this consumer credit crunch might be, but they're not hard to infer: red-letter bills, forced sales of homes, and a rise in repossessions.

This could be verbal, to be followed a few days later with a more detailed document sketching out the areas of agreement.

"We talked about Sophie and he started sketching".

But the museum commission awoke memories of sketching Captain Haddock when he was a small boy and of doodling the ocean-going ships that fill the Tintin albums.

It would be easy to criticise such a work barely 200 pages long, yet sketching the meaning of democracy, the history of democracy, the forms of democracy and the prospects for democracy on the grounds that it failed to go into this or that in the detail which is required.

When it releases its results the company is likely to start sketching out its defence against the widespread assumption that it was grossly negligent.

In the mornings, the 50-minute journey is perfect for sketching out an article; in the evenings I read, usually something work-related, or muse over a story lead or title, or (on Wednesdays, our busiest and longest day on the paper) sleep.

He is a good storyteller and has a rather 17th-century way of sketching characters: Charles XII of Sweden, for example, "abstained from women and alcohol, but enjoyed wrestling with bears".

Grumblers ask: What's in it for Russia?The answer is the sort of future Mr Putin is sketching out: an economically capable Russia; not the superpower it once was, but a power among others, respected for the contribution it can make, not feared and quarantined for the damage it can do.

On January 5th he announced plans to offer tax-relief to some savers and pensioners politically savvy and sensibly discrete while sketching a vision of a thrifty post-recession economy.

Not only would the building have fallen down, but it would have been impossible to make glass panels that were light enough or that could have been bent into the shapes that the design demanded".It has taken 80 years for glass technology to catch up with what Mies was sketching," says Neven Sidor, of Grimshaw Architects.