How To Use Sketchy In A Sentence

The details are sketchy at the moment but i'm certain there is money to be made…
Although I wasn't in the habit of talking to strangers, he didn't seem sketchy, so I walked over to the car and bent down to get to his eye level.
According to UsMagazine. com, Tish and rocker Bret Michaels (yes, the one with the brain hemorrhage and sketchy Billboard cover) were involved in an "on-the-sly romance" that began in February when Michaels and Cyrus released the duet "Nothing to Lose. Rumor Mill: Miley Cyrus's mom had an affair with Bret Michaels
SKETCHY SANTAS anta Claus has captured our imaginations for centuries as an enduring symbol of kindness and generosity. Sketchy Santas
While the history of this participation remains sketchy and incomplete, individual contributions have not escaped notice.

The details are sketchy at this stage, but I understand that both Desmond and Murray are to be interviewed about the plan on this evening's Scotsport Plus.
This seriously good novel tells the story of M, a man with a sketchy past and even sketchier morals.
Or been caught in the middle of a sketchy overlap situation in a miss-and-out race at the local velodrome for those of you "trackies" that don't know what that is, it's the origin of that fugly thing between your legs sans the 1"-risers and Ourys. Urban Alienation: Cultural Carnage and Alleycats
While details are still sketchy, the show looks to be a very extended and extremely sensational commercial.
Details very sketchy at this hour but U.S. officials confirming overnight there was what they call a precision missile strike against a target in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, a target that they say was in an area where there were known terrorists, al Qaeda terrorists with affiliations. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2008
The lore's a bit sketchy when it comes to details like that. A Time of War
Each volume has a brief introduction, plain text on the page, and sketchy notes and glosses at the end.
Garda sources have said the information from Niamh, a result of regression therapy, has been ‘sketchy’.
I have limited, sketchy information on my forebears.
The dialogue is clunkily over-earnest, the characters and socio-political background sketchy. Times, Sunday Times
Reports are sketchy about the model though it is said to be a cabriolet of some description.
In addition, there are sketchy references to the process being initiated by some stimulus material, involving the development of concepts and including redrafts or changes in direction.
Those guys were sketchy, I always thought they were.
The account, sketchy though it was, founded an industry which thrives to this day. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
Your essay gives a rather sketchy treatment of the problem.
Becoming George Sand" offers sketchy vignettes of Sand's excursion to Mallorca with the pettish and ailing composer Frédéric Chopin, but these scenes shed no light on Maria's problems, which are based not on passion but on lying. Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails
When the plot is so haphazard, the themes so underdeveloped, the characters so sketchy, such obvious imagery seems to be hopeless compensation for the film's failure to articulate anything else competently.
Secondly, Australia is a fragile, arid country with infertile soils over large areas, and sketchy water tables in a lot of areas.
The style and extent of the resulting underdrawing can vary enormously, from a few sketchy lines to elaborate hatched drawings, complete in every detail.
The next bits are sketchy. The Sun
I had a client the other day whose PC was practically dead because they clicked on one of those pop up ads while on some sketchy website.
I spotted this mural on the side of a big Goodwill facility in a sketchy part of east Long Beach.
Given the drug economy, lack of ability of the government to effectively project control, monumental corruption, a very sketchy legal system and the war lords in the north, what will it take for Afghanistan to become an “unfailed state”? Might, Will, and Sacrifice
Being the humanitarian that I am, I obligingly pulled out my pocket knife – I carry a pocket knife because the walk from the parking garage to the shelter is about 1/4 of a mile and it is a sketchy neighborhood – but anyway I pulled out my pocket knife and I got it off for him. So I get arrested because HE asked me to “Get it off”? « Literacy Programs « Literacy Help « Literacy News
The train has never seemed as sketchy as the one I'm on from Athens to Patras.
Their tour managers often have only a sketchy knowledge of European history. Times, Sunday Times
The science behind that is a little sketchy, but it could be because they contain zinc, a mineral linked to progesterone and male potency.
While programming details are sketchy, it is understood that the new channel would offer a diet of sitcoms, drama and soaps and will have no news or current affairs content.
But, in a few days, the Pentagon will issue a release with some sketchy details.
My roommate went to the basement to do her laundry late one night and came back with news that there was a sketchy character in the basement.
He deliberately keeps his films sketchy, ‘open systems’ so that the audience can become co-authors.
First there was a deer, quite sketchy, but with a bright, open face, unconcerned, as though he was simply standing at rest.
Details are sketchy but the lightening fast operation, lasting all of 5 hours, stunned France and the world.
There were far fewer sketchy characters on the streets and it was a calmer and more conservative city.
Reports about the 7.9 earthquake remain sketchy, but an earthquake of that magnitude can do massive damage.
She was one of five children, and even in this sketchy history of her fragmented life, with its breakdowns, delusions and stays in hospital, we can see echoes of the privilege to which she was born.
Having received these sketchy clues, the brain does the rest. Times, Sunday Times
This outline includes supporting details, but the topic sentences are not written out; therefore the outline is still rather sketchy. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
For the winner, that prize money is intended to fund their proposal from sketchy concept to full fruition over the year ahead. Times, Sunday Times
We managed to piece together the truth from several sketchy accounts.
I think there are a lot of flaws in this study calculating - it's so hard to calculate profits in Hollywood because the numbers are always so sketchy and there's a lot of fuzzy accounting.
Even Terry Pratchett says he writes a sort of sketchy version of his final scene in the early stages of his first draft.
If you're in a club, chances are there's going to be a sketchy guy in a track suit trying to get you to buy coke.
They had seen sketchy reports in that morning's newspapers of a musician being busted for possession of drugs.
He talks about contexts where you wouldn't want to use a tablet, such as for snapping a picture or for checking directions in a slightly sketchy neighbourhood.
In retrospect, the recruitment email sounded pretty sketchy.
Now I was faced with my dad's inadequate PC, complete with sketchy Internet connection and Microsoft Word.
SKETCHY SANTAS hings began innocently enough in fourth-century Turkey, when a wealthy bishop named St. Nicholas became legendary for helping other people. Sketchy Santas
HuffPost Hill did some Dog-type sleuthing minus the motorcycles, hair-bleaching, sketchy bondsmen and domestic strife and figured out what happened: The live stream runs over channel 26, which is A&E until the House recording studio flips a switch near the start of the hearing. HUFFPOST HILL - Ax Says Gun Control On The Table
My knowledge of human anatomy is sketchy at best. Times, Sunday Times
details of the plan remain sketchy
First tricks were tic-tacs and sketchy 90-degree ollies.
This ersatz-Elizabethan mock-up, approximating to some incomplete and sketchy idea of the original, provides an anodyne facsimile of Elizabethan experience, from which the roughness, stench, and hazard have been removed.
He deliberately keeps his films sketchy, ‘open systems’ so that the audience can become co-authors.
The second page was a sketchy outline of a woman, but you couldn't really see anything.
So far we only have sketchy information about what caused the explosion.
We did see a sketchy guy in the corner riffling through used MetroCards, which made me think twice about whipping out a $300 smartphone.
But just what form any deal would have taken remains sketchy. Times, Sunday Times
Traditional matte portrayal was unequivocally loose; we once carefully thought about the single of Pete Ellenshaws mattes as well as was stunned by how lax as well as sketchy it was, yet when we stood behind as well as squinted it suddenly popped with realism. Famous Monsters Modern Mages: Harry Walton
The idea is still sketchy and some lenders wonder whether it will be workable. Times, Sunday Times
Although there are sketchy details at present, the platform will feature all the usual amenities.
Come si dice 'roofie'?" she asked the sketchy pair as they watched the liquid pass from glass to lips. The Temple News
They also contend, somewhat contradictorily, that figures showing ever higher awards are based on sketchy and unreliable information.
But recommendations about how much is safe to consume remain sketchy. Times, Sunday Times
The story is sketchy and vague about where the funds went.
Some taxonomy or lineality, perhaps, instead, sketchy, but to provide general tendencies: Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs
We managed to piece together the truth from several sketchy accounts.
Here is the thing, I agree with you on everything you say, and I wish you could run for something, because I would intern for you, not that it wouldn't be sketchy interning.
It's simply not worth risking your hard-earned dinero on some sketchy website offer.
The details were sketchy but it was a suspected overdose. Times, Sunday Times
The whole organization seems a bit sketchy.
While driver support is still sketchy, 64-bit computing can provide a performance boost for the applications that support it.
But I did also climb a new 5.9 (balancy, on an arrete, and I was actually quite surprised at how secure some of the very sketchy moves felt), and then I climbed and downclimbed an old standby 5.6 and finished off on another easy one on the skywall. I was stirring my brandy with a nail
It was his use of bright colours with sketchy brushwork that gave his paintings a feeling of the open-air landscape, directly captured with each stroke for an unending moment.
The search generally yields the same results: live/work studio space is expensive, unless you're willing to look in sketchy neighborhoods.
The details were sketchy but it was a suspected overdose. Times, Sunday Times
a sketchy account
We have long known the names of the Stalinist leaders, but their biographies have remained sketchy and disembodied. The Times Literary Supplement
Yes, the plan is still sketchy, but it is promising. Times, Sunday Times
We managed to piece together the truth from several sketchy accounts.
Details are still sketchy and may remain so. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, the information available on this issue has been extremely vague and sketchy.
Yet the details of the ESM remain sketchy and there is a cost to delay: as our foreign correspondents discovered when they asked some of the eurozone's voters last week what they thought of the patchwork of bailouts, cutbacks and frantic summitry. Eurozone's citizens split amid battle to stop debt crisis spreading
Because want was high, and because these wigs consumed a lot of resources, these headdresses were fabricated out of pretty sketchy stuff: “pomatum, artificial pads, and hair procured from corpses.” KN | Kitsune Noir » Lady Gaga’s Next Look
The person who has sat next to me every day for the last 18 months is just a jumble of sketchy features and vague associations.
I'll have to do more work on it because some things are sketchy, but at least I have all my particulates in a row, huzzah. So yeah. stuff!
If you grow long finger nails on the hand that fingers the chords, your chord changes will sound awkward, scratchy, sketchy, boring and muted.
The text is deliberately sketchy, if not embryonic, and the rest is up to the director, designers, and, especially, actors to flesh out.
Three days later, in a related case (the records are sketchy, but the matching surnames in this small community suggest a link) ,143 Bridget St. Croix (presumably a relative of Ann) complained that on the previous evening she had encountered Thomas Tobin (possibly Ellen's brother and the victim of Ann's rock-throwing episodes), who had "accosted" her and said, "now you vagabond [w] hore I have you. Gutenber-e Help Page
Again, my ideas on how promoting principles in politics would be achieved is sketchy, this is something that would be hard as it goes against one of the main aims of politics – toeing the party line. My Response To Power 2010: BBC Bias and Principled Politicians « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
The style and extent of the resulting underdrawing can vary enormously, from a few sketchy lines to elaborate hatched drawings, complete in every detail.
Tara looked at her sketchy outline repeatedly until the whole page became a huge blur to her.
Much of what we know today about shops in the eighteenth century comes either from the higher strata of life or is sketchy at best. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
The sketchy dynamics of the central relationships are just one of many problems in Novocaine, an ambitious but mishandled, miscast hybrid that provides little in the way of thrills.
The details were sketchy but it was a suspected overdose. Times, Sunday Times
Evaluating advice or criticism based on what the advisor would produce if he were at the reins is a very sketchy business practice. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Comic Reviews: Atomic Robo 1-5
Details are sketchy, but it seems that on Thursday, two trains carrying high explosives were being shunted in a freight yard, when they came into contact with a power line.
Stage pillars are elaborately painted to resemble marble columns and, like other painted decorative embellishments, are in accordance with the sketchy historical evidence.
Records are sketchy and no specific maps exist of the era when the abbey was a flourishing community. Darley Abbey
While information is sketchy, unconfirmed reports put the number of bodies at 100.
Having received these sketchy clues, the brain does the rest. Times, Sunday Times
All of our actions are dictated by intelligence reports and sometimes it can be sketchy.
Rather than keenly tuning into the in-depth coverage of Newsnight or Channel 4 News, the only reports I'm hearing are the brief and sketchy bulletins on Xfm in the morning, as I get ready for work.
It become softer and the outlines more sketchy.
Information regarding the death is, at present, sketchy, with the police report being frustratingly vague.
This is possible, I suppose, although my admittedly sketchy review of the relationship didn't reveal any hints of a split.
LAPD described both men as having sketchy pasts.
The one weakness in the Mexican Healthcare Experience was the aftercare was a bit sketchy. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
Details remain sketchy, but the match was abandoned. Times, Sunday Times
The history remains sketchy, with musicians simply allowed to talk in the most general terms. Times, Sunday Times
The details were sketchy but it was a suspected overdose. Times, Sunday Times
Now, there is a peculiarity in Rubens 'method, and which strictly belongs to his colouring, from which arises what may be not improperly designated flimsiness, that is, the leaving too much of the first getting in of his picture, the first transparent sketchy brown. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
The apparently deep relationships between Aaron and Hugh or between Hugh and Becky remain superficial, the minor characters frustratingly sketchy.
Sadly, information is sketchy and unreliable. Celtic Mythology
The Tuta circuit looked downright sketchy, with dirt-strewn corners and sharp speed bumps on the straightaway into town.
What I do think is that the US gov. is viciously exploiting this event as an excuse to carry out all sorts of sketchy activity, both in its internal and foreign policies.
It's a blowing session of free-ish jazz; sometimes funky, sometimes atmospheric, framed by sketchy themes and arrangements.
The history books are sketchy about the biographical details. Times, Sunday Times
Nationals kicks off with Mercedes contracting food poisoning from a sketchy taco joint.
In my opinion, evidence that they have ceased being dreadful remains sketchy. Times, Sunday Times
Kiernan's reminiscences of India, though brief and sketchy, have been published for the first time in this collection.
Brando's part is too slight, his character too sketchy, to allow him to show any acting chops at all.
Whoever the commentator is, the opinions expressed are often only beliefs based on sketchy information that is only indirectly relevant.
By the way, incongruity is the middle name of this insipid film with characters too many and too sketchy and actors short of work or talent, or both.
Ossington Avenue was a crumbling street of dodgy garages and boarded-up business, sketchy strip clubs and bullet-ridden karaoke joints.
The broken tales and their disembodied inhabitants are too sketchy and isolated to incite empathy, and the theme of guilt and absolution has little plot and character for support, so the whole thing feels trifling and weak.
We managed to piece together the truth from several sketchy accounts.
A slightly sketchy town on the edge of the lake, it had none of Copacabana or Isla del Sol's charm.
With less than two weeks before the first tee shot is struck, the details remained sketchy.
As the anti-art urge in modern artists prompts them to topple or transcend themselves, they help audience to look at art intuitively by using silence, blanks and sketchy approaches.
He sounds more like a sketchy drunk guy yelling in your ear at a show, asking if you know where to buy drugs, than like the frontman of the band onstage.
She continued with a vague, sketchy synopsis of what she planned to be doing, and how long she planned to stay.
With details still sketchy, two wrinkles are suggested. Times, Sunday Times
His economic arguments for independence are still sketchy. Times, Sunday Times
The plans remain sketchy but suggest that employers can get'out' vouchers to spend with accredited training providers. Times, Sunday Times
Although she redeems herself with a nice outside shot, she can make some sketchy decisions, too.

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