jottings
Example Sentences
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In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The text, however, evokes a stack of index cards with jottings from an indefatigable researcher unbound by historical limits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
He was due to be sentenced on Thursday at Wood Green Crown Court, which had received a letter Judge David Aaronberg KC described as "jottings and scribblings on a piece of paper".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
Researchers have spent decades combing through European and West African archives to craft a portrait from the jottings of French officers, British traders and Italian missionaries.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2021
He never wrote out fair copies of these jottings for me, fugitive as were the marks and impossible of interpretation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
