doodle
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
They compared popular designer doodle breeds - cockapoos, labradoodles and cavapoos - to their purebred parent breeds across multiple behaviour categories.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
At the bottom, one added a postscript—“Peut-être y a t’il autre chose en NZ”—along with a doodle, which has been endlessly parsed in the decades since.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Only, oopsie doodle, due to a serious knock on the head, Samantha forgot that she’s actually a CIA-trained black-ops agent.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
Cavemen, famously, liked to doodle on the walls with pigments ground from charred wood, stone, bone and minerals, bound with plant sap and animal fat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
After he puked, I helped him scrub the uninspired doodle from his face.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
The enormous light-up can at the entrance features doodles of fireworks, a monster truck, and an eagle in American flag sunglasses.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
This plot doodles along, rarely going where we expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Poodle-cross dogs, also known as "doodles", have risen in popularity in recent years, making up the top three types of crossbreeds owned by dog owners, according to a 2025 survey by the Dogs Trust.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The comics that began as office doodles during boring meetings grew into an empire for Adams with companion books, a short-lived animated show and an ill-fated burrito line.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Words from commercials, conversations, and books run between my doodles and across the backs of my drawings.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
In her teenage years, she doodled poems in her diaries and made up verses about physics to help her remember things for her exams.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Karl Rove doodled on his stupid whiteboard and talked about what viewers could glean from the numbers they already had.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2024
A mysterious triangle doodled on Page 143 of The Codex Arundel notebook seems to show Leonardo da Vinci deconstructing gravity, long before Galileo and Newton.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
She agreed reluctantly, then doodled all over the cover of her composition book.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
On a notebook on her coffee table, she wrote Cynthia Renee Ortiz, doodling hearts around her prospective married name.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
He coped with frustration by doodling during meetings and began developing the Dilbert character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
I’ll sit in my kitchen — I’ve got nothing but birds chirping and the sun’s coming in — doodling for hours if I’m allowed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
He appeared more focused on doodling on a pad of paper than the news conference.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
I raise my eyebrows, looking up from the doodling I picked up again.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
