scrawl

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

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

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

On a night in mid-January, Isla Lester, a server at the Greek restaurant, took a few moments between customers to scrawl out the letters K-A-Y-L-E-E in orange marker on the side of a fresh candle.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

“One might sooner scrawl on granite with a lilac than impress rhetorical niceties upon that woman.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Travis largely keeps his own counsel except when he scrawls in his journal, excerpts from which Mr. De Niro reads in voiceover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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

Landlords wanting to attract young professionals once scrubbed off the rebellious scrawls.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

“No Surprises Here Robin Is an Expert” one of her journal scrawls declares.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023

She has my notebook and waves it around so everyone can see my scrawls.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Hunched over a desk in the Mountain State Spotlight newsroom in Charleston, West Virginia, pen in hand, we scrawled out official notice of our new school in a spiral-bound notebook.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The show is arranged in eight parts and begins with a large white wall at the entrance with the title of the show scrawled in RM’s handwriting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

It is primarily composed of concrete streets, old family-run stores, and a massive influx of newer, sleeker businesses with scrawled cursive logos and $7 drinks.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 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

I scrawled the words pass along under the drawing of the hands and I drew a Lithuanian coin.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

In my reviewer’s copy, I found myself scrawling “bad idea!” in the margin, trying to warn Rose about him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

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

Moments later the two of them were in Mr. Curtain’s office, poring over a chart of Morse code, hastily scrawling a transcription of the distant honks.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart