| However, this thesis is only sketchily developed, and sometimes defies common sense. |
| It does, however, take the view that it is too early to anticipate, however sketchily, the possible upshot of such a debate. |
| Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves. |
| The left half of the body, in shadow, is treated with greater chromatic reserve, the left hand only sketchily indicated. |
| Remembering, sketchily, the main outlines of his recent scene with Porfiry, he could not help shuddering again with horror. |
| There were several hundred poleis, the history and constitutions of most of which are known only sketchily if at all. |
