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.
• On one, the crew scribbles the name of a soccer mom back home.
  — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
• The hacker scribbled a racist term and drew a swastika on the screen.
  — USA TODAY, 2 May 2020
• In court, Winslow II wore a suit and glasses and scribbled on a notepad.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2018
• 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
• Grab a set of themed blank cards, make a cup of hot tea, throw on a Hallmark movie, and get to scribbling.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2024
• People in the office can scribble on the giant screen and those in a Google Meet video call can view and add to it.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Some of the iconic pieces include a crown, scribbled song lyrics and a jacket.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• Just scribble some ides on strips of paper and toss them into a bowl.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Yet soon enough, both men scribbled their names on the makeshift contract, a $545 million deal.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Kids can scribble and write with this doodle board and then erase their creation.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
• The people who helped raise this building like an old barn signed their names on them, and the last name Bundy is scribbled in dozens of hands.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
• His room was so tiny that the only available place to sit and scribble my notes was with me wedged on one side of the bed, and him on the other.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2018
• There’s no stamp or scribbled note on my transcript to confirm that.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• The lyrics are scribbled on 15 pages – some of them old airline schedules Mercury used to jot down his ideas.
  — 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
• Joan is in her chair at her apartment north of Union Square scribbling her final thoughts at the bottom of an e-mail.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• But on Saturday as the music faded, there was Porter as Sacks, standing at the front of the stage and scribbling notes.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• Montgomery spends days scribbling in a notebook, trying to write a play.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 5 June 2019
• Nantz scribbled his name on Henry’s ball with a Sharpie, then shot it, with a perfect release, up into the stands to the awaiting kid.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
• While Sablan was inside the laundromat, the teenager scribbled her plea for help on a ripped piece of paper, court records state.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• Bernstein had already scribbled a bit of music on a napkin in the Russian Tea Room.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
• The singer agreed and proceeded to scribble her signature on McCarthy’s forehead with a black Sharpie.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2024

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scribble

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• The blue crayon scribbles appeared on the statue around April 9, and its beige eyes became blue.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Every scribble, reminder, or ‘buy more wine’ note gets the feline touch.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Back to 1987, a frustrated Davis scribbles and scribbles and scribbles in his sketchbook.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
• Pens began to scratch paper: the scribble of democracy.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Kylie's first photo shows a white cabinet, the bottom half of which is covered in purple scribbles.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
• Even the carpet is meant to resemble artistic scribbles.
  — Grace Wong, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The chapters are strung together with Davis’ scribbles, which would later turn into full-fledged artworks.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Nov. 2023
• In 2019, however, Owens scoured Franklin’s home and found the two handwritten wills, which were full of scribbles and passages that were difficult to decipher.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Tom’s slight of them in his eight-page retirement scribble was intentional.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
• 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
• There is the attack of the past; the fever dream of social media; the mad poring over pool measurements, scribbles in a planner, and quarter-century-old photographs.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 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
• 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
• The route then makes a gradual milelong straight shot downhill overlooking a gully where the faint scribble of Little Rock Trail is visible on the red ledges below.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• His kanpachi ceviche, bracing with lime and garnished with dots and scribbles of avocado puree, came draped with tongues of Santa Barbara sea urchin.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Inside, Thomas Pynchon—early thirties, awkward, with a Zappa ’stache—scribbles on reams of graph paper.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• Each thermostat had a piece of paper sticky-taped to it, with a helpful scribble from the previous homeowner explaining how to operate the gadget.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• The drawing was intended by the father to mock his son’s early purchase of a 1978 scribble drawing by the artist Cy Twombly, the former art world laughingstock whose most important pieces now sell for tens of millions of dollars.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Alongside scribbles that broke down the number and flavor of bagels and croissants customers purchased that morning, the Browns listed other key points such as ferry delays, the weather, tidal conditions, and island events that were taking place.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2023
• With her short and spiky, bleach-blond haircut, bright babydoll dress, and crayon-like scribbles across her face, Weird Barbie doesn’t really match Barbieland’s typical beauty standards.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024