Before finalizing the layout, the designer made several thumb-sketches to explore composition and spacing.

The linguistics professor asked the students to submit their word sketches by Friday.

She packed several sketch pads into her bag before leaving for the park.

He handed over a thumb-sketch of the layout, explaining that it was only a rough idea.

Before the presentation, he drew a quick thumb sketch to capture the idea.

She always kept a sketch pad in her bag to capture scenes whenever inspiration struck.

As a child, I spent hours trying to recreate landscapes on my Etch A Sketch, slowly learning to coordinate the two knobs to guide the tiny internal stylus.

I consulted the word sketch to examine the verb's typical collocates and syntactic patterns.

The art students left several sketch books on the bench after class.

She flipped through her worn sketch book while waiting for the train.