scrawl

He meets his slightly older schoolmate Olympia, one of Eggers’ most beguiling creations, when she implores him to scrawl scatological bathroom graffiti on a playground structure in Old-English typography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

In Barcelona, a black graffiti scrawl has appeared on a long gray wall: “Digital Nomads go home!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Like other chimpanzees at the centre, Ai would scrawl marker pens over blank paper without having to be motivated by food rewards.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

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

Harry could make out Hermione’s neat writing, Ron’s untidy scrawl, and even a scribble that looked as though it was from the Hogwarts gamekeeper, Hagrid.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Molina saw the records and their scrawls as street-level snapshots of Mexican American youth life: “stories from the bottom up,” as he describes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Fun fact: Humanity’s first known scrawls were made by accountants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

On a notebook with “BE BEST” letterhead, Melania scrawls, “No phones.”

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026

By the end of October, the prime minister's frustration is obvious in the long note he scrawls at the end of a Covid briefing document marked OFFICIAL/SENSITIVE.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025

I had sticky notes and faint pencil scrawls on so many of the pages.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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

So Sterling scrawled out songs of his own, drove overnight and showed up at the arena at 6 a.m. the next day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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

One bright red poster read “Bring Buffy Back!!” scrawled in black ink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

The jagged purple words that had been scrawled across the page remained seared in her brain.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

She says she turned to an empty notebook, and began word doodling — scrawling random words, going wherever her pen took her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Earlier this year, Meta announced a multibillion-dollar cable project named Waterworth, which will connect the U.S. to South Africa, India and Australia, scrawling a 31,000-mile letter W on the face of the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

Last November, a 65-year-old American tourist was arrested on suspicion of scrawling graffiti onto a wooden gate at the Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

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

The last time I sit in this school scrawling an essay with a cramped hand into a blue book.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green