How to Use jotting in a Sentence

jotting

noun

• Beyond those more sizable works in the codex, there are a number of smaller writings and jottings.
  — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
• Reading the whole bill feels like scrolling social media and jotting down every commenter’s ideas on what needs fixing.
  — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
• The manuscript also has numerous other scribbles and notes, especially jottings of names of people in medieval times who stopped by to see the massive book and its Devil.
  — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
• Lee wrote and directed the installment after spending 10 and a half hours in a Los Angeles hospital, jotting observations into his phone.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
• Phrased as if for a story that would never be written, this jotting, complete in itself, conjures an eerie world in which violence toward one person reverberates through other people in other places, leaving human bodies mysteriously linked.
  — Robert S. Levine, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
• The task for the printmakers, led by Erik Hougen, Jeremy Ruiz, and Tom Smith, was to reproduce the jottings, corrections, and accidental smears on Safdie’s notecard as faithfully as possible, and also to scale it up in size.
  — Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026