Examples of scribble

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First, notes are scribbled on large sheets of poor quality paper.
What distinguishes mere scribbles from words and sentences is that words and sentences, but not scribbles, possess meaning.
He was also now scribbling verses and composing essays.
He scribbled circular, curvy lines along the axial line to indicate the circulation path while working out the access to the rooms on the right.
During the winter he read to her all of the odds and ends of thoughts he had scribbled on the bits of paper.
The fact that everything relating to my loss was scribbled in children's school jotters with cartoon covers was not exactly a boost to my confidence.
Most scales include an early form of writing prior to letters, described as scribbles, pseudoletters, or mock letters.
Also, note her rough notes scribbled on the paper till she was ready for the ideas in them.
Apparently a decrement of activity and a switching into noise-like scribbles signified the noblest operations of the brain.
The graphic scheme ranges from scribbling to small forms, such as a circle or a square constricted in size, and depends primarily on the child's graphic control.
Sure, that may all fall away into scribbles again in the next go around, but those scribbles once inspired a rebellion that slowly squirmed its way into realism.
Without fencing in the area to keep visitors from scribbling graffiti, restoration teams will have to keep sending cleanup crews to the site to undo contemporary attempts at overwriting history.
Later, he presumably checked the exact references, scribbled them in the margin, realized that he had made a mistake in the original note, and corrected it accordingly.
I have begun scribbling my own reminiscences.
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