How to Use scrawl in a Sentence

scrawl

verb

• She scrawled her signature on the receipt.
• On the other side: a list of staff openings scrawled on the dry erase board.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• On Monday, the word was scrawled on the poster bearing Louk’s face.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Dozens of names had been scrawled by people in heavy black ink.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2023
• There were drawings scrawled on the wall, a desk spattered in paint.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Blurry, dark, with some crazy words scrawled on top of them.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 23 Mar. 2018
• In girls’ schools, the courage to scrawl a slogan on the blackboard is spreading to younger groups.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 1 Nov. 2022
• Adding to the mystery: some writing was scrawled in black on the doll’s forehead.
  — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2019
• The menu, scrawled on a blackboard by the bar, gastropub-style, wasn’t a long one.
  — Marina O’Loughlin, Bon Appetit, 23 Oct. 2017
• Calderon invited the man to take a seat near the specials of the day scrawled in chalk on a blackboard.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• Roughly a half-dozen baseballs, each with a date and score scrawled across it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• Have scrawled on this ship, cracked the specked shell of job title to suck the rich, strange stuff that might become words shared.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
• The school also had a threat scrawled on a bathroom stall on Wednesday.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• The nicknames are scrawled on a whiteboard in the trailer office.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• Madison Hinson died of cancer and Hontzas had scrawled her name on the tape.
  — al, 24 Aug. 2019
• Tyler receives a scary message scrawled on his photos in the lab.
  — refinery29.com, 18 May 2018
• Warhol’s quote about 15 minutes of fame is scrawled on the bathroom mirror, next to a fat pair of red lips.
  — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• The name of the last occupant is scrawled in pen on a piece of masking tape outside the doorway.
  — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Behind him, math facts are scrawled on a concrete wall.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2019
• The lyrics are scrawled on the back of a studio recording sheet, used to account for the time and cost of a recording session.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 11 Jan. 2020
• Graffiti scrawled across the face of the Savior in paintings.
  — Greg Palkot | Fox News, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2019
• The boy drew up his own plays, scrawling one in the dirt during his first season playing the game.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The name of the victim and her birthday were scrawled on paper and left on the altar, along with her photo.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 17 June 2024
• When cutout hearts in windows and chin-up messages scrawled in chalk still were enough to cheer us up and keep fear at bay.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• In a black-box gallery, white graffiti and drawings are scrawled across every plane of the room.
  — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Has any recipient of that email not seen worse words scrawled on a wall?
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2019
• Martinez knelt and scrawled Fernandez’s No. 16 in the dirt on the mound before throwing the first pitch of the third inning.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 July 2017
• There’s a message scrawled on the balloon in marker that can now be clearly seen.
  — Andy Schatschneider, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2018
• Lynch wrote the lyrics in the moment as needed and in a stream of consciousness scrawled onto blue notecards.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• The slurs were scrawled on a tampon dispenser and cafeteria table.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024