scrawl

In Barcelona, a black graffiti scrawl has appeared on a long gray wall: “Digital Nomads go home!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

The handwritten pink scrawl suggests a level of stress that is entirely understandable for the team putting on the biggest stadium tour of the year.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025

Waters also had taggers scrawl words of geopolitical protest on the show’s inflatable pig, and a graffiti artist painted the soundman’s Rat insignia on one of its feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

You’d scrawl your signature on each of the 25 cards, stuff them into their flimsy red envelopes and address them, painstakingly, to each member of your class.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

Each year, a new one is added and people scrawl whatever they want inside.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

Fun fact: Humanity’s first known scrawls were made by accountants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Players control a crew of characters on a quest to destroy the Paintress – a being who emerges once a year and scrawls a number onto a monolith.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025

Landlords wanting to attract young professionals once scrubbed off the rebellious scrawls.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

She scrawls out a note to Border Patrol and instructions for the next medical team, signing her name at the bottom as she would a prescription.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

Princeton scrawls on something that looks like a hyped-up mouse pad and it shows up on Namitha’s screen.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Inside, travellers have left Greek scrawled on the walls, although it is not clear how old the writing is.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Looking at his police file, I can hardly read the signature over his statement; his name is illegible, scrawled and messy, like that of a boy.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

In an early episode, protagonist Sophie finds a tip her missing sister scrawled on a container of Golden Pear body scrub that viewers can conveniently buy on the show’s microsite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Victors went beyond checking off a list of hastily scrawled names to thanking entire categories of people: women, ancestors, Koreans, audiences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

And there it was, scrawled right across a long list of antidotes: Just shove a bezoar down their throats.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

People who are immersed in AI often have some surprisingly old-fashioned habits, from scrawling meeting notes on paper to inputting calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

Last November, a 65-year-old American tourist was arrested on suspicion of scrawling graffiti onto a wooden gate at the Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

The boy drew up his own plays, scrawling one in the dirt during his first season playing the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

The officers whose cameras captured the footage were involved in arresting the four on Jan. 1, 2021, for allegedly scrawling slogans such as “peaceful protest” and “BLM” on precinct walls with sidewalk chalk and charcoal.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

It took preparation, and maybe sitting in that minimall scrawling her plans was both intellectual and emotional practice—Margo’s way of imagining herself into her fate.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green