The phrase "as a scrawl" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is written in a messy or hurried manner, often referring to handwriting.
Example: "The note was barely legible, appearing as a scrawl on the back of a napkin."
Alternatives: "in a scribble" or "like a hasty jotting".
Nearly 75% of Twitter users say a retweet by their favourite artist is as desirable as receiving a scrawl on a piece of paper.
So even after finding what family members described as a scrawled death threat on his windshield two days before, Mr. Ahmed would never change his routine of 10 years or, heaven forbid, keep his shop's door locked.
In one of its more clever touches, the film visualizes Kate's endless things-to-do list that gives her insomnia as an animated scrawl.
The appearance of Shakespeare's surviving signatures, which they characterise as "an illiterate scrawl", is interpreted as indicating that he was illiterate or barely literate.
Images such as a crucifix scrawled over an erect penis and titles such as When my cunt stopped living are sure to generate column inches.
But a regrettable 1982 bronze cast of Michelangelo's 1499 masterpiece "Pietá" and ephemera, such as a note scrawled by the artist to his assistants, seem more about stoking the cult of Michelangelo than about showcasing significant discoveries.
Lovecraft wrote nearly 80 short stories between 1917 and 1935 and Cthulhu appears in many of them: in the footnotes of an old manuscript, as a word scrawled by a trembling hand in a diary, as a name screamed by a madman in a deserted town.
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A cheer erupted at about 8 on a June evening as a woman scrawled with red marker on paper taped to the wall: the small group in a storefront Obama campaign office in this Mayberry-like southern Ohio town had exceeded the night's goal of calling 700 voters with an hour to go, despite time out for a pep talk from a surprise visitor, former Gov. Ted Strickland.
A cherry-red pickup truck cruised slowly through the street as well, a message scrawled in marker on its rear window.
At the rate we're going, this time next year teachers will be carrying out lessons in full riot gear behind a bullet-proof screen and pleading with kids not to kill each other through a megaphone as they scrawl pictures of boobs and penises on their desks with blunt crayons and let out deathly cackles.
