scrawl
verb (used with object)
to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner.
are scrawling
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present progressiveof scrawl.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Yet by now the kids are scrawling their names in script, and one teacher has his charges deep in simple "science experiments."
From Time Magazine Archive
May-blossom and blue bird's-eye flowers falling, Falling In a litter through the elm-tree shade are scrawling Messages of true-love down the dust of the high- road.
From New Poems by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
