How to Use scribble in a Sentence

scribble

1 of 2 verb

• The toddler scribbled all over the paper.
• She scribbled a note to him and then dashed off to her meeting.
• She was scribbling away in a notebook.
• He scribbled down his phone number.
• Students scribbled furiously as the professor lectured.
• Grab a piece of paper and start scribbling notes.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• On one, the crew scribbles the name of a soccer mom back home.
  — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
• Farokhmanesh disarmed him with a grin and scribbled away on his poster.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
• That means no reporters scribbling down who’s canoodling with whom at the bar.
  — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
• Just scribble some ides on strips of paper and toss them into a bowl.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2023
• The hacker scribbled a racist term and drew a swastika on the screen.
  — USA TODAY, 2 May 2020
• There’s no stamp or scribbled note on my transcript to confirm that.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• Kids can scribble and write with this doodle board and then erase their creation.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
• And the third prompt was a short phrase, the kind a burglar might scribble down in a hurry.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• Many children just scribbled, leaving the adults to guess what deep wish those lines and curves might mean.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2023
• Some of the iconic pieces include a crown, scribbled song lyrics and a jacket.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• Turkle doesn’t scribble these theories out longhand in a house off the grid.
  — Corinne Purtill, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2021
• Montgomery spends days scribbling in a notebook, trying to write a play.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 5 June 2019
• Oz prepared to turn over a piece of paper with a name scribbled on it with a Sharpie.
  — Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• No more scribbling names on napkins and losing them later.
  — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• In court, Winslow II wore a suit and glasses and scribbled on a notepad.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2018
• The last snippet shows Markle scribbling notes and then walking up to a podium to give a speech.
  — Isabel Greenberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2018
• The man scribbled what looked to Qing Yuan like a chicken’s clawprint in the sand.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• The quote is so iconic, it’s even scribbled in ink on the bridge featured in the show’s opening credits.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 21 Sep. 2023
• No scribbling down notes in the margins of the character sheet or pausing game play to flip through the spell list again.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Yet soon enough, both men scribbled their names on the makeshift contract, a $545 million deal.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• A lot of people scribbled down assessments of their players.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
• Frances asks for a pen and some paper and begins to furiously scribble down ideas.
  — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2021
• One wall of his office is a white board scribbled with symbols and formulas, as if in a movie about a genius.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• At some point in the artwork’s past, a vandal scratched or scribbled lines on five of its most prominent codpieces.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019

scribble

2 of 2 noun

• Webb looks at his watch and scribbles in his notepad.
  — Stuart James, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• Goo Gone can be used for hair dye stains, dirty vents, garage floors, and crayon scribbles.
  — Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 25 Feb. 2026
• His notepad is sprawled open before him, with pages full of scribbles scattered across the table.
  — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
• Every scribble, reminder, or ‘buy more wine’ note gets the feline touch.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Many of the pages of the young mother's journals had her children's scribbles on them, as seen at left.
  — Iris Carreras, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2023
• But scribbles need expanding on.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• There are crayon scribbles on the floor, diapers neatly stacked on the couch cushion and toys piled near the wall.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The tattoo is simply a replica of scribbles done by her little ones and is on her lower leg behind her knee.
  — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
• Tom’s slight of them in his eight-page retirement scribble was intentional.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
• Refusing a tidy arc through time, their mission feels more like an unbroken scribble on a flat surface.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• Kylie's first photo shows a white cabinet, the bottom half of which is covered in purple scribbles.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
• The blue crayon scribbles appeared on the statue around April 9, and its beige eyes became blue.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• The house looks lived in with furniture from different eras and childhood scribbles hidden in closet walls.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Add a couple of accent nails to your set by opting for a nude base and using a toothpick to scribble on lines in your statement color.
  — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 16 Feb. 2026
• The chapters are strung together with Davis’ scribbles, which would later turn into full-fledged artworks.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
• Others say that the text is an artificial language or strange shorthand, and others still see the text as meaningless scribbles.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• But the field now is worlds away from those midnight pencil scribbles in a spiral notebook that kept his son alive until better technology came along.
  — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
• But documents, with scribbles and hard-to-decipher passages, emerged in 2019 when a niece scoured the home for records.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2023
• The app can work with handwritten scribbles, but it’s geared primarily to handle lots of text across multiple projects and notebooks.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2023
• Her cropped messy hair is reminiscent of a haircut given by a child armed with scissors, and the scribbles across her face suggest that markers were involved.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• If the Eagles' game was a signature win, consider Sunday scribbles of doubt.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
• Believe it or not, but this is an improvement from the generic scribble in earlier versions of SD.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 27 July 2023
• Then somehow, there’s this magical moment when those sentence fragments and scribbles shapeshift into a decent piece of writing.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
• Back to 1987, a frustrated Davis scribbles and scribbles and scribbles in his sketchbook.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
• Author Diane Alber created this day in 2019 to show kids that even a scribble can be a work of art.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
• Walking through the halls of one of the building’s cavernous wings, past scribbles of graffiti and below giant concrete stairwells, our footsteps echo like a metronome.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
• Many scribbles focused on genitalia, specific military units, bad officers and the desire to go home.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Plus Weird Barbie has crayon scribbles all over her face and Teller is always very shiny thanks to some sort of atomic-bomb-proof sunscreen.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 July 2023
• But both documents, with scribbles and hard-to-decipher passages, suddenly emerged in 2019 when a niece scoured the home for records.
  — Ed White, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• The company's own Super Refresh technology is also baked in to nip image ghosting in the bud.
  — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025