scrawl

The note, written in messy scrawl on lined paper, said, “They investigated me for month—Found nothing!!!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Like other chimpanzees at the centre, Ai would scrawl marker pens over blank paper without having to be motivated by food rewards.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

I’m a champion of the film, and so, too, I reckon is the cineaste I saw inside the Lightbox theater wearing a souvenir T-shirt who’d scratched out the “Toronto” with black marker to scrawl, “Winnipeg.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

You’d scrawl your signature on each of the 25 cards, stuff them into their flimsy red envelopes and address them, painstakingly, to each member of your class.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

Turn the pages of that diary, and her inky scrawl rewinds the clock, to a time when her story is just starting.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Travis largely keeps his own counsel except when he scrawls in his journal, excerpts from which Mr. De Niro reads in voiceover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

By the end of October, the prime minister's frustration is obvious in the long note he scrawls at the end of a Covid briefing document marked OFFICIAL/SENSITIVE.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025

When a kid scrawls her first word in Crayola on the dining room wall, we don’t officially consider her a writer.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

He was surrounded by bromides such as “Never Never Give Up” and “Follow Your Dreams” in scrawls that tried to mimic graffiti but were as cool as mom jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Princeton scrawls on something that looks like a hyped-up mouse pad and it shows up on Namitha’s screen.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

He recently learned that she’d scrawled a Bible verse — Proverbs 3:5-6 — in black Sharpie on the door of her bedroom at her mother’s house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Inside, travellers have left Greek scrawled on the walls, although it is not clear how old the writing is.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

A piece of concrete that the family had scrawled their names in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Looking at his police file, I can hardly read the signature over his statement; his name is illegible, scrawled and messy, like that of a boy.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

I went downstairs and picked up a pale blue envelope from the dining room table and scrawled on the back, in large, painstaking letters: I am going for a long walk.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

In my reviewer’s copy, I found myself scrawling “bad idea!” in the margin, trying to warn Rose about him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

People who are immersed in AI often have some surprisingly old-fashioned habits, from scrawling meeting notes on paper to inputting calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

Last November, a 65-year-old American tourist was arrested on suspicion of scrawling graffiti onto a wooden gate at the Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

Wembanyama cheerfully signed autographs, scrawling his name onto basketballs and Spurs jerseys — some even with his name already on the back — before making his way into a waiting vehicle.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

The larger books on the desk are moving at a less steady pace as Marco goes back and forth between handwritten volumes, scrawling notes and calculations on loose sheets of paper.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern