Example Sentences

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Teenagers have scrawled the message in their notebooks and carved it into at least one pumpkin.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2019

For years, European soccer stars have scrawled messages on shirts worn under their jerseys, revealing the words after scoring a goal.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2017

It’s more like a federal budget document than something Alan Turing would have scrawled on a chalkboard.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2016

Was known for owning a black BMW with the personalised plate H11HNE; Ian Jack, now a columnist for the Guardian, was reputed to have scrawled “this is very vulgar!” in the dust on his bonnet.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2016

Surely ye all have overhauled A country damsel's album trim, Which all her darling friends have scrawled From first to last page to the rim.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry