Examples of sketchbook in a Sentence
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The rooms even come with a sketchbook and ukulele for guests who want to channel their inner artist during their stay.
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Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
Jeffers, who splits his time between his native Belfast and Brooklyn, N.Y., has been using Moleskine sketchbooks, notebooks and calendars for almost 20 years and credits much of his creativity and output (23 children’s books) to this constant physical hand-eye-brain connection.
—Angela Ledgerwood, wsj.com, 28 Oct. 2023
The pages of her sketchbooks suggest an intensity of concentration that is infectious.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
Each of my sketchbooks reflects chaos: Drawings overlap one another, markers bleed through the pages, and doodles of nonsense are numerous.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2023
During the early stages of brainstorming, designers spend a lot of time with their sketchbooks, getting inspired by their immediate environment, by history books and by their own experiences.
—Juan Noguera, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
If the exhibition, which consists of fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from throughout her career, entices one to acquire a piece one actually can—albeit a print.
—Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2023
At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, a modest selection of 86 drawings (12 of them double-sided sheets), two sketchbooks and three puppet-like constructions of cardboard wrapped in paper and twine offer a good introduction to Castle’s curious and compelling body of work.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
Besides singing, Bennett pursued his lifelong passion for painting by taking art lessons and bringing his sketchbook on the road.
—Charles J. Gans, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
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Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
Jeffers, who splits his time between his native Belfast and Brooklyn, N.Y., has been using Moleskine sketchbooks, notebooks and calendars for almost 20 years and credits much of his creativity and output (23 children’s books) to this constant physical hand-eye-brain connection.
—Angela Ledgerwood, wsj.com, 28 Oct. 2023
The pages of her sketchbooks suggest an intensity of concentration that is infectious.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
Each of my sketchbooks reflects chaos: Drawings overlap one another, markers bleed through the pages, and doodles of nonsense are numerous.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2023
During the early stages of brainstorming, designers spend a lot of time with their sketchbooks, getting inspired by their immediate environment, by history books and by their own experiences.
—Juan Noguera, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
If the exhibition, which consists of fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from throughout her career, entices one to acquire a piece one actually can—albeit a print.
—Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2023
At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, a modest selection of 86 drawings (12 of them double-sided sheets), two sketchbooks and three puppet-like constructions of cardboard wrapped in paper and twine offer a good introduction to Castle’s curious and compelling body of work.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
Besides singing, Bennett pursued his lifelong passion for painting by taking art lessons and bringing his sketchbook on the road.
—Charles J. Gans, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
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First Known Use
1820, in the meaning defined above
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sketchbook
noun
sketch·book
ˈskech-ˌbu̇k 
: a book of or for sketches
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