Sentence examples for a scrawl from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a scrawl" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a messy or illegible handwriting or drawing.
Example: "I could barely read the note because it was just a scrawl on the page."
Alternatives: "a scribble" or "a messy writing".

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"Each runner, I track their progress," he said, leafing through the pages, covered with a scrawl of names and numbers.

Below a scrawl of anti-Bokassa graffiti, someone had placed a broken wing of a plastic imperial eagle.

Isotopically light carbon is a kind of biosignature — a scrawl on the wall that says "Life wuz here".

A scrawl of graffiti paid tribute to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister: "Bibi We Love You".

On a walk around campus, he and Kim noticed a scrawl of racist graffiti on a pedestrian bridge.

A scrawl of graffiti caught my eye: a riff on the Ampelman, the East German "traffic light man".

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He rocks back in a squeaky office chair wedged between stacks of documents, two computers, combination-locked file drawers and a scrawl-filled chalkboard.

Later, the carabinieri also turned up a scrawled receipt from Renzo Canavesi.

She said she could see a scrawling from her apartment window.

Next to the jewelry was a scrap of paper and a scrawled sum.

Another claimed, in a scrawled-by-teen-werewolf font, to be OUT OF CONTROL ($28).

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