Sentence examples for crossings out from inspiring English sources

What's with all these crossings out?

I began writing something else, and my desk became littered by pages of my own fiction, which was adorned with more crossings out, more marginal notes.

In Lennon's rough and ready scrawl, with gaps and crossings out, The Lovin' Spoonful become 'The Lovin's Spoonfuls' and Otis Redding is 'Ottis Redding'.

The opening page is an angry mess of loops, scrawls, arrows, additions, crossings out and "STET s, with only the first sentence and one later phrase ("the erotic tenderness of a long-separated lover") surviving intact.

Hicks, a historian at the Fondation Napoleon in Paris, spent years trying to piece together the manuscript and says some of the leaves were wrongly ­identified because Napoleon's handwriting, rich in blots and crossings out, was so diabolical.

Hurried on to the page (in pencil on the back of the typescript of a previous book), the flowing sentences are constellated with crossings out, insertions and circled text as Updike honed, phrase by phrase, the middle-American idiom and the hurtling present-tense that are signatures of the Rabbit cycle.

The other half performed the simplest version of the crossing-out-letter task, where they just had to cross out any instances of "e" they saw in the texts.

Illegible handwriting and multiple crossings-out?

That was a month of metaphorical crossings-out in my contacts book.

I filled out my obligatory page with lists of lessons and enormous crossings-out.

Pretty, if you like red crossings-out; otherwise, it's sort of disheartening.