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• This is scratch paper, so go ahead and scribble whatever you want on it.From the entry scratch
• She scribbled a curve on the paper.From the entry curve
• No, the original plan for Chicago's street layout was not scribbled on the back of a napkin by an ancestor of Roger Ebert; you just ate the onion.From the entry eat the onion
• His mother and father, both Stanford Law professors, took turns scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad.2023 October 5, Victoria Bekiempis, “FTX co-founder testifies he committed crimes with Sam Bankman-Fried”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry legal pad
• I look down at the back of the school flyer I had just scribbled on.2018 July 4, Uzma Jalaluddin, “The perils of meal planning”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry goos
• Eyeing at the table full of scribbled papers he dictionarily imparted, “a large book or volume”.2011, Eddie Horton, Just Compass, Balboa Press, page 72. From the entry dictionarily
• Of course, not all veterans are scribbling away madly during those hourslong sessions.2009 August 22, Mike Berardino, “Players must also excel in the classroom”, in Sun Sentinel, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2009. From the entry hourslong
• As she scribbled a quick note, she saw a post—it stuck to her dayplanner.1999, Sonia Ayanna, Unexpected Bliss, New York, N.Y.: toExcel, →ISBN, pages 59–60. From the entry dayplanner
• Imagine a parliamentary stenographer scribbling furiously in the days before tape recorders.1993, Graham Bradshaw, “Appendix: Dashing Othello’s Spirits”, in Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists, Ithaca, N.Y.…. From the entry Hansard
• On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.1967, Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills: Industrial Archaeology, page 126. From the entry billy
• Some seem like Ulysses, scribbling himself, amidst a tempest, far-slung brainstormy associations of his own.1962, Richard Neutra, Life and Shape, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, →LCCN, page 115. From the entry brainstormy
• Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.2013, Gardner, Smart and Smarter, →ISBN. From the entry full-handed
• I think no longer of you as my first trustworthy scribe - I have deranked you to "Pen scribble".2013, James Clark, Shirley Hitchings, The Poltergeist Prince of London, →ISBN. From the entry derank
• A Twombly-inspired canvas with slanted scribbles of white on a black background feels less forced, perhaps because Ms.2008 June 20, Karen Rosenberg, “Veiled or Naked: Scrutinizing Women’s Roles”, in New York Times. From the entry stitchwork
• I scribbled the measurements on the wall with a koki.2007, Robyn Cohen, Nearly Finished: A Guide to Home Renovation, page 80. From the entry koki
• "The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water. From the entry blotter
• “He scribbled something on a message pad, tore, folded, gave” and “ ‘G-Gay?’ puzzled Bev” are fair examples of Mr.1978 November 19, Martin Amis, “A Stoked‐Up 1976”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry gimcrack
• Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405. From the entry graylag
• He scribbled a name and address on the back of his business card and handed it to Betty.1960, Rowland Barber, “Mlle. Fifi from Paris, France”, in The Night They Raided Minsky’s: A Fanciful Expedition to the Lost Atlantis of…. From the entry mama
• She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 16, in Klee Wyck. From the entry longish
• I left my smartphone on the kitchen counter alongside a notepad on which I scribbled in pen: Got called away for work.2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN. From the entry call letters
• Her speculation was set against a backdrop of rearview creepshots, with a few barely there scribbles added to blot out actual facial features.2018 July 14, Natasha Lomas, “Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds”, in TechCrunch. From the entry creepshot
• The adults were still being all shushy and secretive, so José read his books, Anna scribbled in her notebook, and Henry started a new game.2014, Kate Messner, Manhunt. From the entry shushy
• If you write once on a sheet of paper, it can be read, but when you scribble over and over, the script becomes unreadable.2000, Jalaluddin Rumi, Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion. From the entry blackenedness
• Why, then, was she not in Bond Street, as advertised, scribbling her signature on Travellers' Cheques and scooping up emerald parures and things?1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 202. From the entry parure
• Once they were young and little and rather "scrabbly." They were given to loud laughter, to whispers, to scribbling pictures, and to mischievous glances.1961, Today's Education - Volume 50, page 22. From the entry scrabbly
• Up to this point, Loveday appeared to be an exceptionally typical undergraduate, in that he wrote in majuscule what his fellows scribbled in lower case.1951, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth, R. Hart-Davis, page 111. From the entry majuscule
• Ai had become obsessed with a red scribble that appeared on a planning document for an art show next month in Yinchuan, a city in northwest China.2016 August 26, Javier A. Hernández, “Ai Weiwei Planned to Sculpt a ‘Redline.’ Chinese Censors Say He Crossed One.”, in The New York…. From the entry Yinchuan
• After eight hours of intense viewing, o-o-hing, and scribbling down plant names and ideas, a spent group of participants returned to our cars, goodnighted, and went our separate ways.2010 fall, Jo Laskowski, “Hardy Fern Foundation Garden Tour, August 2010”, in Hardy Fern Foundation Quarterly, volume 20, number 4, page 85. From the entry goodnight
• The book’s contents are for the most part the result of scribbling on napkins over numerous macchiati and espressos away from the office at different posts over the years.2010, Vladimir Alvarado, Eduardo Manrique, “Preface”, in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies, Burlington…. From the entry macchiato
• When I first started writing, scribbling, I was living in Cunnamulla on the edge of a sandhill, and I could see anyone coming across the flat.2007 July, Sue Abbey, quoting Herb Wharton, “An Ungraded Bush Track”, in Fryer Folios, volume 2, number 1, page 15 of 14–17. From the entry shame job
• He leaned his head close to his handboard and engaged in furious scribbling with his stylus, doing figures and checking results at a speed that suggested long practice.2002, Holly Lisle, Vincalis the Agitator. From the entry handboard
• With a black pencil on a standard copy pad, he scribbled down the thoughts and fragments of thoughts that appealed to him as they erupted like fireworks.1995, Joan Kufrin, “Chapter 8: The Farming Life”, in Leo Burnett: Star Reacher, Leo Burnett Company, →ISBN, pages 96-97. From the entry egger-oner
• And when Freudian fiction becomes – as it has become in America – but an inviting wall on which to scribble Fescennine filth – that, too, is another matter.1977, C. John McCole, Lucifer at Large, Ayer Publishing, page 108. From the entry fescennine
• But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.1921, Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn - Page 248. From the entry wordly

Meaning of scribble

1. verb To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
2. verb To doodle.
3. verb To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.

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Questions about scribble in a sentence

How do you use scribble in a sentence?

Scribble is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.”

What is a short sentence with scribble?

“Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.”

What does scribble mean?

Scribble means to write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.