Example Sentences

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Recently, Corse realized that she was doodling whenever she was talking on the phone, and that those shapes were ending up in her art.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2018

I was doodling and looked up when I heard her voice seize.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2017

As the writer presents his gameplan for a new ambitious story for the park, he brags that it “will make Hieronymus Bosch look like he was doodling kittens.”

From Time • Oct. 7, 2016

Sometime in 1885 or 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle was doodling on a sheet of paper.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2014

By the time I spotted her coming back, I’d stopped writing and was doodling in the margins.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd