scrawl

In Barcelona, a black graffiti scrawl has appeared on a long gray wall: “Digital Nomads go home!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

The BBC has seen a copy of the judgement which includes the report and a two-page prescription which shows the doctor's unreadable scrawl.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

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

The message was addressed in a scraggly thin scrawl to “The Unbelievable Underwoods.”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

Fun fact: Humanity’s first known scrawls were made by accountants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

Landlords wanting to attract young professionals once scrubbed off the rebellious scrawls.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

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

Upon its knees and mighty chair, and all about the pedestal, were idle scrawls mixed with the foul symbols that the maggot-folk of Mordor used.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The show is arranged in eight parts and begins with a large white wall at the entrance with the title of the show scrawled in RM’s handwriting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

It is primarily composed of concrete streets, old family-run stores, and a massive influx of newer, sleeker businesses with scrawled cursive logos and $7 drinks.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 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

The day after the council vote, protesters gathered outside Scientology’s Clearwater headquarters, where someone scrawled “Cult” and “Stop Scientology.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

I started to read the words scrawled on the outside but stopped myself.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

Earlier this year, Meta announced a multibillion-dollar cable project named Waterworth, which will connect the U.S. to South Africa, India and Australia, scrawling a 31,000-mile letter W on the face of the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 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 last time I sit in this school scrawling an essay with a cramped hand into a blue book.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green