How to Use scribbler in a Sentence

scribbler

noun
  • My wife's a banker, but I'm just a scribbler who writes for the newspaper.
  • The scribbler who penned the cryptic note remained anonymous—until now.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Since then, scribblers have been stepping between the ropes or into the cage to wrestle a book out of themselves.
    Gordon Marino, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
  • But Wessex isn’t the only challenge facing the struggling scribbler.
    Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
  • Their quest is one shared by the legions of traders, techies, online scribblers, and gamblers and grifters mesmerized by Bitcoin.
    Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The notebooks are also heavier and handsomer than the typical pocket scribbler.
    Michael Calore, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The internet and smartphone threatened to stamp out scribblers entirely.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • At times certainly; that’s an occupational hazard, and not the worst one, for scribblers advising the Prince.
    John O'Sullivan, National Review, 20 July 2017
  • Despite its sham humility, this bitter retort to the scribblers who denied him the last measure of greatness falls short for a want of tough-minded self-analysis.
    Jamie James, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
  • Some devices, like Acer's Spin 3, have tiny scribblers that hide inside their chassis, and others simply have magnetic edges that the pen is supposed to stick to.
    Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 6 July 2019
  • The PenAgain�s odd shape reduces hand cramps and calluses by encouraging scribblers to extend their fingers instead of curling them.
    Sonia Zjawinski, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2002
  • Aside from making scribblers redundant, a common worry is that such systems will be able to flood social media and online comment sections with semi-coherent but angry ramblings that are designed to divide and enrage.
    The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Gissing presents us with a gallery of striving scribblers for whom daily existence in 19th-century London is yet another iteration of the new world of industrial labor.
    Scott Spencer, WSJ, 7 July 2017
  • Kenzie Smith could be spotted at the park, circulating among friends, but refused all interview requests from the many TV cameras and notebook scribblers who were documenting the barbecue.
    Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • In keeping with the book’s first-person format, Catherine keeps a diary and introduces the various other characters with the wit of a budding Jane Austen — the difference being, this young scribbler has no interest in wedding bells.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2022

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