scrawled

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But since a fan was bitten by a farm dog, the family has posted wooden signs along the road with “by appointment only” scrawled in black paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 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

“The customer was just providing details when her husband came forward and grabbed the mobile phone started argument and cut the call,” a worker had scrawled in looped letters on a preprinted form.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The words scrawled on it were written by her son and are addressed to Ángel Godoy, the boy's father and Briceño's husband, while Ángel Godoy was a prisoner in Venezuela's notorious El Helicoide jail.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 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