jottings

Example Sentences

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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

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

After his death in 1935, the trunk was discovered, brimming with notes and jottings on calling cards and envelopes, whatever paper appeared to be handy.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021

His printed draft had whiteout and other jottings indicating clearly it was not a final version.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020

I need not have worried about the former; no one in the audience or on the stage had paid the least attention to my jottings.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood