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Example sentences for "scrawls"

Lexicographically close words:
scratchings; scratchy; scrawl; scrawled; scrawling; scrawly; scrawny; scream; screamed; screamer
  1. Moreover, he has copied the scrawls with a carelessness so prodigious, that we failed at first to recognize the original.

  2. On their walls may yet be seen the many scrawls of old-time prisoners.

  3. The earlier scrawls of John Jones or William Robinson have themselves, almost by lapse of time, come within the range of archaeology.

  4. And he extracted from the thievish scrawls a peculiarly thievish-looking hieroglyph.

  5. Leidy here stated that the communication now referred to, unlike all the other communications of the Medium, which were miserable little scrawls of a few words, was a lengthy one, which covered the entire slate.

  6. The appearance of this writing was much the same as that of the first day, when another long written communication was produced, but it bore no resemblance to the scrawls which were exhibited in answer to questions.

  7. Why that is a slang term we use in psychiatry, to describe the absent-minded scrawls and designs people make while their attention is elsewhere occupied.

  8. He rose and stood aside unassumingly, as Pillbot bent over the scrawls on his charts, clucking interestedly.

  9. The sight of the bailiff and a bit of stamped paper covered with scrawls produced such an effect upon Schmucke, that he held out no longer.

  10. The walls of the upper stories were covered with apprentices' ribald scrawls and caricatures.

  11. These scrawls appear to indicate some communication between Madame de Talmond, the Duke of Lorraine, and Louis XV.

  12. On September 12; Charles scrawls a despairing kind of note to Goring.

  13. Occasionally there are a few spots or scrawls of "bister" or "clove brown" about the larger end.

  14. Often there are splashes or scrawls of brownish black, or black, at the larger end.

  15. Sometimes there are a few blackish scrawls and usually a few underlying small spots of drab.

  16. At the cap there are a few spots and short lines of inky-purple sunk into the shell, and over the whole egg, very sparingly distributed, there are spots and irregular fine scrawls of reddish brown.

  17. The eggs, two in number, were blue, with a few spots, streaks, and scrawls of brown tending to form a zone at the larger end.

  18. But the child's own scraps and scrawls contain the kernel and jewel of the book.

  19. What are these scrawls in the fly-leaves?

  20. Elly's sentimental scrawls provided him with enough amusement to kill time.

  21. Paulchen's scrawls would be as safe in her hand as formerly the outpourings of amorous souls.

  22. A few scrawls belonging to the time of that boy-and-girl flirtation which went on under your eyes.

  23. But its effects were soon felt; and then began a system of correspondence by signs, and the throwing of little scrawls done up in pellets, and announced by preliminary a'h'ms!

  24. He ought to have acknowledged that the Abbé himself had pointed out the German scrawls on some of the pages of his MS.

  25. They are generally finely marked, but sometimes eggs will have spots which are large enough to be called blotches, or even a few small scrawls of very dark brown.

  26. Some eggs have a faint wreath of the pale drab coloring which is relieved with a few bold spots or scrawls of dark "bay" or "Mars brown.

  27. Small scrawls of blackish brown may be found on some of the more heavily marked types.

  28. In addition a few small scrawls of brownish black are often found.

  29. Sometimes a few spots or scrawls of dark "mummy brown" or "olivaceous black" stand out in sharp contrast to the other markings.

  30. Generally the spots are concentrated at the large end, forming a wreath, but some are marked all over and may also have a few scrawls of blackish brown.

  31. How those scrawls of black lines were words, that could be spoken just the same as in conversation, was beyond their comprehension.

  32. Then arose the desire for them to be able to make out those intelligible scrawls that had a meaning.

  33. Those earlier days have passed by and the mystery of the scrawls has been solved.

  34. There may be isolated instances of this low form of vandalism elsewhere, but I do not recall any that can compare with the volume of defacing scrawls to be seen at Sunium.

  35. What traces of painting there are left on the Delian walls are indistinct and rather unsatisfactory, and recall the childish scrawls of our own day.

  36. The slipshod dreamer treads thy fragrant halls, The sophist's cobwebs hang thy roseate walls, And o'er the crotchets of thy jingling tunes The bard of mystery scrawls his crooked "runes.

  37. Kittie had vanished with her letter; but as Mr. Murray sat down, he saw the envelope on the table, and immediately experienced the most peculiar and unpleasant sensation, on observing the masculine scrawls thereon.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrawls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.