jottings

Example Sentences

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Let John Denton’s doggerel stand in for all the great jottings that didn’t make it into “Dear California.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Freist said she was “electrified” when archivists opened several letters and found jottings on chalkboard tablets that had only survived unerased because of their sudden seizure.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 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

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