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How to use doodle in a sentence

31 example sentences · noun, verb

Doodle means a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person. Example: “The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.”

Examples of doodle by meaning

nounThe penis.

  • His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 189
  • Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles would shrivel up between their legs and fall off.1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 43
  • All of Dwight's parts wandered, especially his doodle.2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books, published 2011, →ISBN

verbTo draw or scribble aimlessly.

  • The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
  • The managing director doodled.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 32

verbTo engage in something non-seriously; fiddle.

  • I can tell you that he does indeed spend a lot of time on business and social calls, social chats, doodling around on AOL, and skimming the daily paper while those patients are piling up.2003 February 23, 14tonks, “More doctors charging for e-mail and phone calls”, in sci.med.transcription (Usenet)
  • For quite a long time now (at least the 1990s) people have been doodling with the idea of separating space and time again and perhaps endowing them with some properties currently not assigned to them.2016 May 19, JanPB, “Quantization of Gravity”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet)

More sentences with doodle

  • Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.From the entry automatic
  • He also spends several hours each day walking his two black doodles, Sirius and Sonny.2023 July 2, Brandon Griggs, “We’re multitasking while walking our dogs. Animal experts say this is a problem”, in CNN. From the entry audiobook
  • He was sketching me as I doodled in my own book, almost like an inception.2020, Farra A., What's Fate Got to Do With It?. From the entry inception
  • My bujo is full of doodles, pencil-colored drawings, washi tape and post it notes.2017 September, Jackie Loudin, “Bullet Journaling: It's Just My Style”, in Around Canton, page 38. From the entry bujo
  • Someday, there would be long rows of children learning to doodle.2017, Kirthi Jayakumar, chapter 1, in The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble, New Delhi: Readomania…. From the entry Dimashq
  • They could learn to doodle their alif-be-pe-te instead of wrestling with them like I did.2017, Kirthi Jayakumar, chapter 1, in The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble, New Delhi: Readomania…. From the entry Dimashq
  • When a class was boring, he doodled intricate maps of imaginary lands.2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry terry
  • He pulled out a fresh sheet of paper, sat on his high stool, doodled a bit.2000, John Sandford, chapter 10, in Gardner Dozois, editor, Easy Prey (Prey; 11), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry game mistress
  • The rolled joint looks like a cheese doodle, which I find excessively amusing.1997, K. J. a. Wishnia, 23 Shades of Black, PointBlank Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry cheese doodle
  • Many writers find that a diversionary activity such as doodling provides a good micro-vacation from writing.1984, Alan Ziegler, The Writing Workshop, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, published 1984, page 12. From the entry micro-vacation
  • Doodles sits under twenty-five watts and quite a titsy calendar in the storefront "Arizona Taxi Service."1977, Cornell Review - Issues 1-4, page 102. From the entry titsy
  • In Figure 47, a doodle of a cat has been added to a commissioned mural, and subsequently covered by a poster.2019, Alexandra Parker, Samkelisiwe Khanyile, Kate Joseph, Where do we draw the line?: Graffiti in Maboneng, Johannesburg, page 99. From the entry commissioned
  • Newspapers and magazines would load their graphics, and you could doodle as on the Sony Reader Daily Edition.2011 January 30, Kyle Wagner, “E-readers lighten a traveler's load But choosing the right unit means weighing features, cost, ease of…. From the entry as
  • This is one doodle that can’t be undid, homeskillet.2007, Diablo Cody, Juno, spoken by Rollo (Rainn Wilson). From the entry homeskillet
  • Decorating each alienation, each species of withdrawal, as cufflink, decal, aimless doodling, there was somehow always the post horn.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry decal
  • Singing skiddly, winkie, doodle all the day!1961, Shanties from the Seven Seas, page 42. From the entry skiddly
  • And no wonder . . . dressed as she be an all them fancy flap doodles, curls and laces.1942, Louise Rosalie Preysz, Dear Teacher: The Hilarious Story of an Old Maid, page 86. From the entry flap doodle
  • They gave him a place to experiment or doodle or just play around, as with the above drawing of Peppermint Patty as a weed.2025 October 7, Mark Evanier, The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, Abrams, →ISBN, page 236. From the entry throwaway panel
  • They doodled chalk messages of “rest in power” and “be the change” along the sidewalk, and periodically broke out in chants: “Say his name!2020 June 10, Vivian Ho, “'He'll change the world': George Floyd's family pays emotional tribute as crowds flock to funeral”, in The…. From the entry rest in power
  • This 5mm square grid notebook is great to use for diagrams, mock-ups, designs, everyday use, notes, calculations, lists, doodling, musings or other creativity projects.2019, Squared Grid Notebook: Square Grid Notebook/Journal, Elite Blank Books. From the entry mock-up
  • What just about everybody does agree on is that a flap doodle will often increase your chances of hooking a king salmon.2006, American Angler: The Magazine of Fly Fishing and Fly Tying. From the entry flap doodle
  • If you left an old envelope lying about, the leccy bill or a magazine, you'd find it again with a little doodle on.1998, Paul Magrs, Could It Be Magic?. From the entry leccy
  • For example, engaging in 'elsewhereism' (e.g., daydreaming, doodling, and texting) is but one strategy that others may use to resist superordinate's attempts to frame the interaction sequences at hand.2022, Deborah C. Poff, University Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance, page 139. From the entry elsewhereism
  • A large Wisconsin family in tank tops sat at a picnic table eating boloney sandwiches and generic cheese doodles so they could afford a thousand-dollar day at Disney.2001, Tim Dorsey, Orange Crush, HarperTorch, published 2002, →ISBN, page 359. From the entry cheese doodle

Meaning of doodle

  1. noun A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
  2. noun A small mindless sketch, etc.
  3. noun The penis.

Full definition of doodle

Questions about doodle in a sentence

How do you use doodle in a sentence?
Doodle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.”
What is a short sentence with doodle?
“The managing director doodled.”
What does doodle mean?
Doodle means a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.

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