: to cause (text or graphics on a display screen) to move in scrolling
Examples of scroll in a Sentence
Noun
He read from the scroll.
a scarf with lovely green scrolls on it Verb
You have to scroll the screen to see the bottom of the Web page.
Recent Examples on the Web
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Noun
Van Wessel chose to have these pictures fold in on themselves, with some running over to the following pages, creating the effect of a disorienting scroll without beginning or end.—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025 If your brand message doesn’t stop the scroll, your sales funnel never starts.—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Verb
Then keep scrolling to shop more customer-favorite undies at Amazon.—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 3 Aug. 2025 At the Outlaw shows, people are eating chicken fingers, spilling ketchup on themselves, chugging beers, loudly talking with their friends, scrolling through their phones, and taking selfies with Bob in the background.—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scroll
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English scrowle, blend of rolle roll and scrowe scrap, scroll (from Anglo-French escrowe, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch schrode piece cut off, Old High German scrōt) — more at shred entry 1
Share