scribble
Example Sentences
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Ava steps away for a moment, giving Deborah an opportunity to reach for her notebook to scribble a thought . . . then it happens.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
From time to time, he’d scribble in a small spiral notebook.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
I learned this the hard way while following along on my mat, occasionally leaning over to scribble notes — at one point, I caught the teacher’s eye.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
"I scribble and sketch, but shift quickly to the computer. I thought I'd write the whole manuscript longhand - by the third paragraph I gave up."
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
It no longer looked like a photograph—more like a drawing, a crude, charcoal scribble of a house drawn on gray paper.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing scribble
The Write Stuff: Scrib, Script
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Essential Word Roots: Graph, Gram, Scribe, and Script
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: scrib, scribe
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