I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
name
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The girl behind the beauty-counter at Lewis's had scrawled her name in pencil on the window frame.
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Beneath the tick and scrawl that made her name the paper was lightly wrinkled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jim scrawled his signature across the bottom of the page.
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Someone had scrawled a strange symbol on the wall above the bed.
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Three students were excluded for scrawling graffiti on a school wall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the head of each arrow, he scrawled further appreciation.
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Names scrawled inside the boat matched those of migrants en route to join family members in Britain who had never arrived.
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Romanov scrawled his signature between the two X's with the proffered gold pen.
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She tried to make sense of the dozens of scrawled, mostly incoherent pages Vilma sent in return.
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The tiny pens, scrawling in palsied traces on endless white ribbons of paper, slowly ground to a halt.
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The windows cowered behind a wire grill and were dotted with advertisements scrawled out on postcards.
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With a sinking heart I noticed that he was holding up a piece of torn cardboard with my name scrawled on it.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I couldn't read the doctor's scrawl .
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I kept a diary then -- pages and pages of tiny scrawl .
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The note was written in Gwen's childish scrawl .
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What does it say? I can't read your scrawl !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is covered with a hasty scrawl in Darwin's hand.
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Nifty handwriting recognition algorithms can translate the user's scrawls into print - and can shrink them to fit if necessary.
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One looked safe enough, bearing, as it did, Mr Yarrow's distinctive scrawl .
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The top page was covered in scrawls and doodles.
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The wall was covered with scrawls done with a bit of pencil lead.
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You end up with walls lined with sheets of paper, or blackboards covered with artistic scrawl .