jottings

Example Sentences

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The text, however, evokes a stack of index cards with jottings from an indefatigable researcher unbound by historical limits.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

After his death in 1935, the trunk was discovered, brimming with notes and jottings on calling cards and envelopes, whatever paper appeared to be handy.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021

His printed draft had whiteout and other jottings indicating clearly it was not a final version.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020

Included in her list of things that caused dismay, and mentioned first, was “when high school yearbook jottings can take a good man down.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2018

I need not have worried about the former; no one in the audience or on the stage had paid the least attention to my jottings.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood