scrawl

Example Sentences

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Some AI workers won’t let bots do basic tasks, choosing to scrawl their meeting notes on paper and input calendar entries manually.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

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

Waters also had taggers scrawl words of geopolitical protest on the show’s inflatable pig, and a graffiti artist painted the soundman’s Rat insignia on one of its feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024

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

And then, in a messier scrawl, I write: My ballet school has always been my sanctuary.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day