scribble

Example Sentences

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You had this rough scribble of a brick base with a curvy wave over the top of it.

From BBC

While on vacation in France, he started scribbling an idea for a spy novel.

From The Wall Street Journal

And earlier this month United defender Noussair Mazraoui was recorded comically scribbling half-hearted signatures on a set of shirts given to him by a hunter who approached him at his car window after training.

From BBC

My mind was scribbled with black thoughts as I reached home and barged into the back room.

From Literature

Meanwhile, the 2025 novel “Unfit” by Ariana Harwicz, about a mother losing her children in a custody battle, uses erratic crayon scribbles on its cover.

From Los Angeles Times