Why are all prescriptions written in such a scrawl?.    From LearnThat.org. 

I recall the scrawl that ran just below the "McDonald's": "10,000 hamburgers served.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The clock anvil and the lie that business creates jobs] Reference

This series of paintings takes as its title a scrawl of graffiti on a rock-cut along the Trans Canada Highway near Sudbury.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIG IT SKID!] Reference

There was no other copy in existence except the original scrawl, which is now lying up stairs in an old trunk full of papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_] Reference

Judging by my scrawl, which is worse than usual, I should say the anxiety had left its mark, but I am none the worse otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference

With thine own name scrawl'd through it, defacing a soul? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile] Reference

It displays a curious-looking scrawl which is the monogram of the first absolute king!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03] Reference

"To Rachel, I love you," reads the childish scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Lives Met In Death] Reference

"Promotion, eh!" she was looking the scrawl over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

It was open and I could barely read the tortured scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door] Reference

The writing ended in a long scrawl angling off the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beast of Space] Reference

The scrawl wasn't formed in paint or marker or even blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic X] Reference

(She points to the indescribable scrawl over the mantelpiece.).    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

  An open notebook is covered in her nearly illegible scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference

Then, at last, he had gathered strength enough to scrawl these lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

But the scrawl broke off in a long pencil line, where death had jerked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

Mr. Osgood pointed to the scrawl at the foot of the framed commission.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

/And then when ya/Think you've heard it all/Glenn Beck starts to scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Parry: Paranoia Is Perennial -- a Poem] Reference

/And then when ya/Think you ve heard it all/Glenn Beck starts to scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Parry: Paranoia Is Perennial -- a Poem] Reference

Notes in her childish scrawl have fallen on me, thick as autumn leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

The enclosure was a slip of paper on which was written in a hurried scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

           You open the fresh notepad, uncap the Bic and scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assumption] Reference

Perkins signed the book in a sprawling scrawl, and the sergeant went his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

I had previously made you a hasty scrawl from the tugboat Dandelion, in Ogeechee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Janice read the pitiful little scrawl through the first time on the store porch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

The effort proving quite abortive, he began to scrawl beneath it, 'Paul Armstrong.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

On the very first page were two names, written out in a careful, semieducated scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossibles] Reference

He wasn't able to talk clearly, and could hardly scrawl his name with a pen or pencil.    From Wordnik.com.  [We've Got Mail--Always] Reference

He paused here in his laborious scrawl and, despite his resolution of silence, muttered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

Then came another scrawl for "my love Angilotto," in which the miraculous news was told.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Will the class of 2070 scrawl we love John, Paul, George and Ringo across their notebooks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Invasion] Reference

Unable to properly grasp a pen, I watched my handwriting regress to a young child's scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tipping Point] Reference

Inside was a single sheet of lined paper and a letter written in a child's penciled scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Karen’s Crowded Mind] Reference

Some typed up the handwritten letters, afraid we wouldn't decipher their loved one's scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Voices of the Fallen': Reporting the Story] Reference

"She's a great one for notes," he muttered, jerking the scrawl down, half impatiently, half amused.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

After all, no one could blame him for failing to realise the true significance of that hurried, transient scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

Each was slightly different, and each bore some resemblance to a stick-figure, a geometrical figure or just a childish scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

But what a difference there was in the letters; Deena's had three pages of pretty handwriting; Stephen's six of closely written scrawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference