they sketched
Past they conjugation of sketch.

sketch

Mr President, Mr Solana, Commissioner, the reports you have presented today may not have been positive or optimistic, but they sketched a realistic picture.
Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Haut Représentant, Monsieur le Commissaire, les rapports que vous avez remis aujourd' hui n' étaient certes ni optimistes, ni positifs, mais ils ont le mérite de peindre un tableau réaliste.
In many of the smallest hours of the morning I found myself trying to digest the stories that they told me, the worlds that they sketched with their silences, hands, and gazes, their insistence in pointing to something else, something further.
Bien des matins je me suis retrouvé face à moi, essayant de digérer les histoires qu’ils me contaient, les mondes qu’ils dessinaient par leur silence, leurs mains et leurs regards, leur insistance à montrer quelque chose par-delà.
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