Definition of "sketching" [sketching]

• Present participle of sketch. (verb)

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• "While not exactly spelling out what the right strategy for Afghanistan would be, Gates went further than any Obama official has to date in sketching what such an approach might look like."
• "“He is engaged in sketching various scenes about Ningpoo,” Ball wrote of West, “learning as much as possible about places, people, &c.”"
• "I have gone thus far in sketching conditions of the past simply because it seems to me they point to a remedy, to what I regard as the chief remedy, for the present situation."