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Example sentences for "scrawly"

Lexicographically close words:
scratchy; scrawl; scrawled; scrawling; scrawls; scrawny; scream; screamed; screamer; screamers
  1. In my letters the handwriting was very scrawly and hurried, there were frequent repetitions, and occasionally words were left out.

  2. It was the scrawly handwriting that misled; that's all.

  3. It was addressed, in rather scrawly chirography, to "A.

  4. He rose about ten o'clock, and after a light breakfast he sat down and wrote a short letter, cleverly disguising his own hand, and imitating the scrawly penmanship and bad spelling of an illiterate woman.

  5. It was in a strange, scrawly hand, and was postmarked Paddington.

  6. Both were thin, and the addresses were more scrawly than usual.

  7. She sat very still and waited, making scrawly marks that had no meaning at all.

  8. He worked so assiduously with this new toy that the table top was soon a mass of scrawly loops and irregular lines and his pencil-point worn down to the wood.


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