blotter

Example Sentences

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He grew up in Latrobe, Penn., and got his start in journalism writing the police blotter for his local paper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

This arrangement—the “four-way”—would recur throughout the history of blotter.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2024

“We know there are many concerns from parents, students, teachers and the community surrounding the incident and there are rumors circulating,” the Police Department said on its online blotter.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

Privileged Rockridge hardly seems the sort of neighborhood that would generate grist for the crime blotter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

Petty Officer Powell kept an immaculate desk—a calendar blotter, twin upright pen stands, a nearly full ashtray, a telephone.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson