Example sentences for: scribbling

How can you use “scribbling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Instead of buying an actual book before they depart (or hunkering down with 10 of them in the local Barnes & Noble and scribbling down the best of each, as I usually do) they'll simply download the latest version of the Lonely Planet Guide to Graceland, which will contain constantly updated train schedules, hotel prices, and restaurant menus.

  • Fifteen minutes into The Gingerbread Man , the Robert Altman thriller based on a story by John Grisham, I found myself scribbling in my notebook, "Robert Altman is God!

  • Dazzled by this magical opportunity to sell at pre-crash prices, I negotiated a contract with my bosses to continue scribbling on a free-lance basis, and on Nov. 1, I became a "vendor" of various editorial materials.

  • Collecting Northwest Coast artifacts for the Smithsonian and scribbling his wonderfully astute monographs while his fellow townsmen were out stumping for commerce, Swan introduced the idea of the absorbed eccentric.

  • Explanation: Infirmities prevent him from scribbling much beyond his signature, so he's trained himself to compress the world into verbal hieroglyphics.


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