jottings

Example Sentences

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Freist said she was “electrified” when archivists opened several letters and found jottings on chalkboard tablets that had only survived unerased because of their sudden seizure.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

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

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