character sketch

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for character sketch
Noun
  • An incredibly bright flavor profile with hints of cinnamon and a lovely finish.
    Erik Ofgang, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Our favorite cocktails included not-too-sweet flavor profiles and drinks that pack a punch.
    Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Playwrights addressed the polis not by dramatizing current events but by recasting tales from the mythological and historic past to sharpen critical thinking on contemporary concerns.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • So much of this book is about this complicated and rather dangerous nostalgia for a past and a community that’s gone forever.
    Dwyer Murphy June 6, Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Rush, who held degrees from Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, had an adventurous spirit, per his obituary in the New York Times.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • Ramos is survived by two children, according to his obituary.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The play is nominated for five Tony Awards at this Sunday’s ceremony, including Clooney for Best Actor, and has broken weekly box office records as the highest-grossing non-musical play in history.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Trump’s ability to flip a switch and ease the all-consuming pressure on the global economy, at least somewhat, is probably the most blunt and effective tool in modern history to reverse any sentiment doom spiral.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Hug says in his chronicles on the conflict that his peacekeeping contingent relied on satellite cameras to track an ever-changing labyrinth of dangers produced by the smoldering war.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • But this epic chronicle about a family’s struggle to remain together and preserve its dignity in the face of more powerful forces neither judges nor lays blame.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
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“Character sketch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/character%20sketch. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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