scrawl
Example Sentences
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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 handwritten pink scrawl suggests a level of stress that is entirely understandable for the team putting on the biggest stadium tour of the year.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 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
On a night in mid-January, Isla Lester, a server at the Greek restaurant, took a few moments between customers to scrawl out the letters K-A-Y-L-E-E in orange marker on the side of a fresh candle.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023
“He’s my hired hands,” she said with a chuckle, and as we had done before, we held the pen between my hand and hers and managed to scrawl out a signature.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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