Example Sentences

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Earlier this year, Meta announced a multibillion-dollar cable project named Waterworth, which will connect the U.S. to South Africa, India and Australia, scrawling a 31,000-mile letter W on the face of the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Last November, a 65-year-old American tourist was arrested on suspicion of scrawling graffiti onto a wooden gate at the Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025

The officers whose cameras captured the footage were involved in arresting the four on Jan. 1, 2021, for allegedly scrawling slogans such as “peaceful protest” and “BLM” on precinct walls with sidewalk chalk and charcoal.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Another page looks like a word cloud, with Mercury scrawling dozens of words and phrases including “fandango,” “thunderbolts and lighting” and “belladonna.”

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

Gold writing kept dashing across it as though an invisible giant’s hand were scrawling upon the blackboard and then wiping it off again; watching it, Harry saw that it was flashing advertisements across the field.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling