scrawl

Managers can issue warnings to baristas who repeatedly write on customer cups ahead of time, scrawl something inappropriate or fail to use a Sharpie, according to internal guidance on the mandate to Starbucks stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2025

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

That Oscar-nominated film is far more gentle and sincere than “Challengers,” a trim, naughty, ferociously well-acted trifle about characters more likely to scrawl something foul on a bathroom stall than quote Heraclitus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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

The Cranes Conquer America was written at the top in Emily’s eight-year-old scrawl, back when she was into putting smiley faces inside her e’s, o’s, and o’s.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

When a kid scrawls her first word in Crayola on the dining room wall, we don’t officially consider her a writer.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

It was full of scribbles and scrawls that were not of any language the magistrate knew of.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

Violet, named for the color of identifying crayon scrawled on her brow, is one of 250 to 500 patients the Marine Mammal Care Center rescues along the Los Angeles County coast every year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

Before he was an international sports mogul, he was Enos Stanley Kroenke from rural Missouri with sporting heritage scrawled right on his birth certificate—his namesakes were St. Louis Cardinals legends Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

Beatrice displayed a crumpled paper napkin that had been scrawled upon in red ink.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

He’d been accused of scrawling “No to war!” on a building.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024

“Math requires focus and sleep,” Mr. Galal told the students through a microphone, scrawling equations on a whiteboard.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 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

I remember its hand, definitely Lelia’s, considerable, vertical, architectural, but gone awry in parts, scrawling and windbent, in unschemed colors of ink and graphite and Crayola.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee