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

Meneley’s shooting is the first shooting by SPD officers in eight months and the first fatal one in 23 months, the blotter post says.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

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

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2024

A woman in her 40s driving northbound on Elliott Avenue West hit the man in the 600 block of the road before 6 p.m., police said in an online blotter post.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

It was written in pencil on the desk blotter: “The little girl on the plane/ Who turned her doll’s head around/ To look at me.”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger