scrawl
verb (used with object)
to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner.
was scrawling
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past progressiveof scrawl.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Deitch was around when Jean-Michel Basquiat was scrawling graffiti on the bombed out streets of the Lower East Side in the 1970s before he rocketed to fame as the enfant terrible of the art world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
“So,” he said as he was scrawling, “what will be my duties with the company?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Jimmie Dale, under a pencilled arrow mark indicating the finger print, was scrawling a few words in printed characters.
From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
It was scrawling in huge letters, over and over, "NO NO NO"....
From The Worshippers by Ed Emshwiller
