How to Use sketchbook in a Sentence

sketchbook

noun
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  • This sketchbook was about a pigeon that wants to drive a bus.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Kabaker’s sketchbook painting of her yard, with the deck from the cover on the right.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Ms. Rose first fell in love with art through drawing in sketchbooks as a child.
    — Tamara Best, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • And those sketchbooks are what got me a scholarship [to Chouinard].
    — Cauleen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • On one page from Saar’s Haiti sketchbooks, earth tones overlap a Haitian postage stamp.
    — Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • True to its name, the Revival Pencil Shag Rug looks like it was ripped from the page of a modern artist’s sketchbook.
    — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But aside from those, there’s nothing artistic about the sketchbooks.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • So the whole thing with this journal slash sketchbook is just to start doing something.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Matt kept a sketchbook of shapes, symbols, logos and words and phrases.
    — Nick Keppler, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • Alongside the war photos were stacks of my father's sketchbooks and some loose pages of writing.
    — Liz Goldwyn, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2014
  • Selections from his huge cache of sketchbooks Hair by Julien d'Ys.
    — Alexandra Marshall, Town & Country, 2 May 2016
  • Selections from his huge cache of sketchbooks Hair by Julien d'Ys.
    — Alexandra Marshall, Town & Country, 2 May 2016
  • Some paintings have the intimate feel of the sketchbook, the fleeting sense of water, brush, and shifting light.
    — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • 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
  • Other cool throws this year include a sketchbook with Mona Lisa on the cover, fuzzy socks and duckie throws....
    — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The sketchbooks are the seeds for her inspirations for paintings.
    — Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The whole collection is based on sketches from my sketchbook.
    — Andrea Cheng, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2017
  • The first photo shows Summer on the floor in an oversized t-shirt and a tie-dye bucket hat, hunched over and drawing in her sketchbook.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • One of the pics features the sonogram placed right next to a pair of driving gloves—because, remember, Arie loves cars!—and a sketchbook.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2018
  • One sketchbook opens into a puzzle; another is cut in the shape of a sandwich.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Later, thinking about the subject some more, the Milwaukee artist drew a mop in her sketchbook, the place where all of her art begins.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Most of Brophy’s works on paper are no bigger than sketchbook pages.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • These black and white forms, almost childlike drawings that, in this case, are coming straight from Runa’s sketchbook.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • He was inspired the previous year by a visiting artist at the U who had a bookshelf filled with sketchbooks.
    — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2019
  • These three drawings, pencil on paper, were in my sketchbooks there.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 June 2018
  • Back to 1987, a frustrated Davis scribbles and scribbles and scribbles in his sketchbook.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Snag a leather sketchbook used by his character starting at $268.
    — Ben Meyerson, RedEye Chicago, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Wirsum began drawing, using a sketchbook, a pad of paper and a pencil.
    — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021

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