Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sketch made with a pencil.
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Examples
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I used to pencil-sketch, many moons ago – maybe kids got in the way.
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Once I've got an idea I'm happy with, I do a rough pencil-sketch and fax it over to the desk for them to approve.
Is the Independent suffering from myopia about its own content? 2008
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Sunlight dipped toward the horizon, over pencil-sketch trees calli-graphed onto the impossible blue of the sky, tinged a burnt scarlet.
The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007
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Sitting in the shade, without flowers or ornaments, her attire the modest muslin dress, colourless but for its narrow stripe of pale azure, her complexion unflushed, unexcited, the very brownness of her hair and eyes invisible by this faint light, she was, compared with the heiress, as a graceful pencil-sketch compared with a vivid painting.
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He made a pencil-sketch of the Napoleon head in his note-book, and stated that the apparition could be seen opposite the castle of
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Trailing her, a gaunt, black-clad assistant with reedy arms and pencil-sketch facial hair dragged two aluminum suitcases.
Tell No One Coben, Harlan, 1962- 2001
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Trailing her, a gaunt, black-clad assistant with reedy arms and pencil-sketch facial hair dragged two aluminum suitcases.
Tell No One Coben, Harlan, 1962- 2001
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Everything about him seemed thin—his face, his receding hair, his pencil-sketch mustache.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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Everything about him seemed thin—his face, his receding hair, his pencil-sketch mustache.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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Everything about him seemed thin—his face, his receding hair, his pencil-sketch mustache.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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