jotting
Example Sentences
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Slowly I slide back to my knees next to him and we begin to work side by side, quietly flipping the pages and jotting down anything that seems noteworthy.
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About 8,000 miles from the Middle East, where U.S. forces massed over the past month to prepare for war, Heather Griffith has been jotting a string of rising numbers into a notebook.
Curtis is shown jotting down notes and telling staff: “I’ve been talking to a lot of guests and the feedback on the nuggets is frankly not good.”
As he got older, he started jotting down financial terms he didn’t understand to later look them up.
Jarvis has pulled a small notepad from his pocket and is jotting something down.
From Literature
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