Example Sentences

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“The customer was just providing details when her husband came forward and grabbed the mobile phone started argument and cut the call,” a worker had scrawled in looped letters on a preprinted form.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Customers had scrawled various messages of love and pleas including “Come to Brasil.”

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2024

Based on the date I had scrawled on the lid with a Sharpie, I'd purchased the jar in November of 2018.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2023

Elvis Francois, 47, had scrawled the word “help” in English on the boat’s hull, which officials said was key to his rescue.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023

I stared at the phone number Rachel Elizabeth Dare had scrawled on my hand.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan