chicken scratch

Example Sentences

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“My little chicken scratches attempting to keep score when I was 6 or 7, and then I got better at it,” Cranston said.

From Seattle Times

Typing, voice dictation technology or my usual chicken scratch would’ve done the job far faster.

From Los Angeles Times

At a certain point it was nothing but chicken scratches because they were all gone.

From Los Angeles Times

“All you got is the present, baby, and we already deal with enough chicken scratch,” Colby says.

From Los Angeles Times

I would prefer to receive a “thank you” note with a computer-generated label than to have it sent to the wrong address because the computer could not read the chicken scratches on the envelope.

From Washington Post