scribble

Example Sentences

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Before 2008, he recalls, a clinician’s work was memorialized on paper: scribbled notes, doctor’s orders and thick charts parked at the nursing station.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Polito identifies Mr. Dylan’s myriad sources, the contents of the box, often from unimpeachable evidence: the songwriter’s own scribbles in the margins of his manuscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cars lined up and Swig employees walked from customer to customer, scribbling orders on sticky notes and ringing up sales with a Casio register.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You go inside there. You’ll see those two seats, and next to the window, my pa scribbled a map of what he saw. Dated and signed it, right there on the wall.”

From Literature

At first, it just looks like a mass of scribbles, but then I make out the crooked, wobbly letters that spell Boo.

From Literature