blotter

Example Sentences

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He grew up in Latrobe, Penn., and got his start in journalism writing the police blotter for his local paper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

This arrangement—the “four-way”—would recur throughout the history of blotter.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2024

Privileged Rockridge hardly seems the sort of neighborhood that would generate grist for the crime blotter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

The SPD blotter post doesn’t indicate whether the vehicles used in the home-invasion robberies are believed to have been stolen.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023

It was written in pencil on the desk blotter: “The little girl on the plane/ Who turned her doll’s head around/ To look at me.”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger