: an aimless or casual scribble, design, or sketch
also
: a minor work
Examples of doodle in a Sentence
Verb
She doodled in her notebook instead of taking notes.
I plan to spend the entire vacation just doodling.
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Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2025
Try coloring, building with blocks, or doodling beside a younger child.
—Kelsey Mora, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Debra Rubin, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
After her death, tasks like cleaning out Mom’s closet and going through boxes of her professional documents, scrawled with her familiar doodles, went on for years.
—Jessica Alexander, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
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Verb
That someone with the district attorney’s office would doodle the Nazi symbol on the case file of a Black man accused of rape in the early 1980s raises significant concerns about the motivations of the prosecution, Reingold said.
—Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2025
Try coloring, building with blocks, or doodling beside a younger child.
—Kelsey Mora, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
In the program, called Tefillah ReImagined and created with support from JEIC, students are encouraged to highlight passages, write questions in the margins, or even add pictures or doodles.
—Debra Rubin, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
After her death, tasks like cleaning out Mom’s closet and going through boxes of her professional documents, scrawled with her familiar doodles, went on for years.
—Jessica Alexander, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Doodle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doodle. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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