doodle
verb (used with or without object)
to draw or scribble idly.
doodled
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past participleof doodle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof doodle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
doodleverb (used with or without object)to draw or scribble idly.
Example Sentences
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In her teenage years, she doodled poems in her diaries and made up verses about physics to help her remember things for her exams.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A mysterious triangle doodled on Page 143 of The Codex Arundel notebook seems to show Leonardo da Vinci deconstructing gravity, long before Galileo and Newton.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
And sometimes, it seems like people just get bored, like the Whitney Museum guard who doodled “I Love you Tushee, Love, Buns” on a Roy Lichtenstein painting in 1993.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022
Håkon doodled with one claw in the wet dirt.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
