scrawl
Example Sentences
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The note, written in messy scrawl on lined paper, said, “They investigated me for month—Found nothing!!!”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The BBC has seen a copy of the judgement which includes the report and a two-page prescription which shows the doctor's unreadable scrawl.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
I’m a champion of the film, and so, too, I reckon is the cineaste I saw inside the Lightbox theater wearing a souvenir T-shirt who’d scratched out the “Toronto” with black marker to scrawl, “Winnipeg.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
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
He was a lefty with immaculate handwriting; I had a heavy right-hand scrawl.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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