Example Sentences

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The Emperor and his people alike were hooked: within a century of its author’s death, in 19 B.C., citizens of Pompeii were scrawling lines from the epic on the walls of shops and houses.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Music was getting more percussive; teenagers with spray cans were scrawling hieroglyphic names and full-fledged murals on subway cars.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2016

Within days his followers were scrawling "Bird Lives!" on Manhattan walls.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010

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

A pennyworth of sugar-plums would have made our eyes sparkle when we were scrawling pot-hooks at a preparatory school, but no one gave us sugar-plums then.

From What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron