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Meanings of scrawl (scrawling) in English
Synonyms
Examples for "scratch"
Examples for "scratch"
1
The change would allow companies to build new commercial airports from scratch.
2
Problem is, with a new virus, scientists have to start from scratch.
3
This company was started from scratch and was delivered within a year.
4
Or he'll take a new sheet of paper and start from scratch.
5
The South Sudan government had to almost build the country from scratch.
1
He's a good halfback. I turned my attention back to my scribble.
2
She was pointing at the scribble he was making on the paper.
3
Some people absent-mindedly scribble lines and absurd names on their desk blotter.
4
I scribble in haste from here, where we shall be some time.
5
They thank me profusely and scribble the name down on their shirt-cuffs.
1
You taught him Language Prime, and he learned what cacography really is?
2
Magister, there might be a connection between Language Prime and my cacography.
3
However, she was clearly after something more than curing his cacography.
4
What if cacography is simply a mismatch between a mind and a language?
5
And by reading this tome, he discovered something about the nature of cacography.
Usage of scrawling in English
1
Ned took the paper, on which was written in a scrawling hand:
2
The title was in a scrawling, strange script that she didn't recognize.
3
She opened the letter-justa few words in a scrawling hand:
4
He kept notes, scrawling impenetrable messages to himself on ragged ends of paper.
5
I picture her scrawling out a note to Dear Abby on linen-blend stationery.
6
In a magazine review his work was calledthe mindless scrawling of a Neanderthal.
7
And now instead I am scrawling this nonsense in a tavern after lunch.
8
My grandmother had put it there in a painful, scrawling hand.
9
Staring at the scrawling lines made me more fatigued than I already was.
10
How useful was scrawling a preposition on a slanted line, anyway?
11
The remainder confined themselves absolutely to business, scrawling postal-cards or reading their mail.
12
Hastily scrawling her name, Joyce ran out into the hall with her letter.
13
What on earth were those nitwits trying to prove, scrawling on the walls?
14
Three scrawling lines of runes had been scratched into the wax.
15
Tapes are piled high in a corner, labeled in scrawling Arabic.
16
She jumped, scrawling a line of ink down the center of the page.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Translations for scrawling
Portuguese
Scrawling through the time
Scrawling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common