Sentence examples for scrawl from inspiring English sources

"IT'S not about the 50 cents" reads a scrawl on a shop shutter on Avenida Faria Lima, one of São Paulo's main thoroughfares.

The days when textbooks were covered with the scrawl of pupils in long-ago classrooms may be coming to an end.

Simple-minded vandalism, perhaps; but their scrawl captured the feelings of an increasingly noisy segment of America's population.

A mezuzah is a lowest common denominator of Jewish identity; not having one would feel like outright apostasy.The swastika was scribbled alongside it, which is why I am sure this was not some random scrawl.

"Stinkfish", arguably the city's most successful street artist, sprays portraits of the locals, with yellow faces and rainbows in their hair.Technically, it isn't illegal to scrawl on Bogotá's walls.

Yet no one has been charged and he has not been compensatedBlank canvas Bogotá is a South American mecca for graffiti artists because, unlike in London or New York, it isn't technically illegal to scrawl on the city's walls.

Even some Conservatives, aware that his messy scrawl is the product of poor eyesight rather than indifference, thought the Sun's behaviour crass.Voters are getting angrier, however, about the Afghan mission itself.

The last words he managed to scrawl in his lab journal were "desire to laugh".

Nothing, save the vagina, which is neither as easy nor as childishly satisfying to scrawl on a wall, manages to be so sacred and so profane at once.

By contrast, he could fearlessly scrawl away because he had nothing to lose.Instead, Charlie was his family.

The answer is 10,210 years (see my calculation below, if you can unpick the scrawl).