jot
Example Sentences
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So maybe Emily Dickinson just jotted off this poem kind of carelessly.
From Literature
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Bring a paper copy of your passport with you, know where the embassy is located in the country you’re traveling to and jot down the country’s emergency phone number.
From MarketWatch
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.”
She jotted down questions: What accounts were the streaming services and athletic club membership paid out of?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.