scrawled; scrawling; scrawls
: to write or draw awkwardly, hastily, or carelessly
scrawled his name
: to write awkwardly or carelessly
Examples of scrawl in a Sentence
She scrawled her signature on the receipt.
scrawled a quick note, stuck it in their mailbox, and hurried off
Recent Examples on the Web
Electors scrawl handwritten votes on slips of paper.
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Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Painted when Basquiat was just 20 years old, the five-foot-wide piece captures the heat and urgency of his breakout moment: a frenetic, mythic figure scrawled in oilstick on paper, hovering, as Jeffery Deitch once put it, between the street and the studio.
—Daniel Cassady For Artnews, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2025
Some of the building’s windows had been smashed and profanities scrawled on the walls.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Related article ‘The lives of individuals in the US are at stake,’ researchers warn after HHS cancels hundreds of vaccine grants
On a recent Tuesday, atop the museum’s dark coffee table, notes scrawled onto white paper listed the latest shipments of vitamin C and Alaskan cod liver oil.
—CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025
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Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Painted when Basquiat was just 20 years old, the five-foot-wide piece captures the heat and urgency of his breakout moment: a frenetic, mythic figure scrawled in oilstick on paper, hovering, as Jeffery Deitch once put it, between the street and the studio.
—Daniel Cassady For Artnews, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2025
Some of the building’s windows had been smashed and profanities scrawled on the walls.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Related article ‘The lives of individuals in the US are at stake,’ researchers warn after HHS cancels hundreds of vaccine grants
On a recent Tuesday, atop the museum’s dark coffee table, notes scrawled onto white paper listed the latest shipments of vitamin C and Alaskan cod liver oil.
—CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scrawl
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“Scrawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrawl. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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