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
  • 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
  • With orcs, there is no overlap to draw on, no there there.
    Caitlin Penzeymoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lately, he had been focused on a new plan that would draw on two pools of money.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022
  • Kids write and draw on paper, with iPads handy on their desks to research questions.
    Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Don't forget to draw on little seeds with a black marker.
    Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But the Gemini project drew on researchers and engineers from across Google for the past few months.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
  • As for deposits, SVB has sources of funding to draw on to sustain asset growth.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Another draws on the back of a notebook, shading in a portrait of a woman with a Bic pen.
    The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2024
  • Coronavirus outbreaks in China mean there is plenty more of that crude for the EU to draw on.
    Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Lionheart would then draw on those bond proceeds to complete the work.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The annual Lancet Countdown draws on the work of 122 leading experts worldwide.
    Adriel Bettelheim, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
  • For Eisenberg, however, the film drew on a lot of personal connections — not just to his character, but to the region.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024

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