How to Use draw on in a Sentence

draw on

verb
  • And the biggest draw on Fox News is a 5 p.m. chat show.
    Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The sequence should be drawn on the bottom half of the strip.
    Charlotte Hu, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The deadlock led to a lot draw on April 7, which Price won.
    Drew Dawson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The desert camel can drink and store enough water to draw on for weeks.
    Asher Y. Rosinger, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • Some consumers might go to a bank to cash a check that was drawn on it.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
  • For six months, Ellen said, Zion would wake up and draw on his tablet.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 July 2022
  • Cut out the apple shapes and let the kids decide what to draw on top.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 18 July 2022
  • The teams last played to a 2-2 draw on Sept. 15 at Providence Park.
    Kyle Pinnell For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2021
  • With orcs, there is no overlap to draw on, no there there.
    Caitlin Penzeymoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
  • If no one wins the prize, the jackpot will roll over to the next draw on Friday, Dec. 20 at 11 p.m. ET.
    Mike Winters, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
  • It's called, Want to draw on photos or check your heart rate?
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
  • My boyfriend picked up the pencil and drew on the most perfect ‘90s brow.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a wealth of interviews and films to draw on when making the film.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Vance and Walz, both from the Midwest, will draw on their roots to prepare for the debate.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
  • No opportunity to draw on the tree’s DNA to help the rest of the species survive.
    Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2022
  • And by the end, anyone who was on the show would just draw on their last day a mustache on my name placard on the door.
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2023
  • In meal mode, kids feed it discs with different foods drawn on them and the dinosaur will say the food’s name.
    Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 13 Apr. 2024
  • To draw on photos: • Open the photo and tap Edit, then the Markup button.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The first meeting between the sides resulted in a 1-1 draw on Aug. 14.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2021
  • At the moment, news isn’t even the leading draw on NewsNation.
    Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Rare is the program that doesn’t draw on the classical canon to some extent.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Naomi doesn't have much canon to draw on, so what has the adaptation process been like?
    EW.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Beshear said Ford would get a loan of up to $250 million to draw on through construction.
    CBS News, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Levy Park goes above and beyond with board games, card games, arts and crafts and chalk for kids to draw on the sidewalk.
    Vicki Salemi, Chron, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The project gave us permission to draw on our insights about life with Black skin.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Jen Brady, the Australian Open finalist, in the top half of the draw on Saturday.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Keough will lead the series as Jones, and has plenty of experience to draw on for the role.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Those forecasts draw on decades of research into the physics of rip currents.
    The Conversation, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
  • The milk glaze draws on the nostalgia of enjoying a bowl of sugary cereal with milk as a kid.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Hackman often drew on these painful memories when roles required a darker shading.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025

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