How to Use scribbler in a Sentence

scribbler

noun
  • My wife's a banker, but I'm just a scribbler who writes for the newspaper.
  • Since then, scribblers have been stepping between the ropes or into the cage to wrestle a book out of themselves.
    — Gordon Marino, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
  • That is to say: The wine version of this drink, or any other early-day tipple, is as useful to the street cleaner as the scribbler.
    — Tamar Adler, Bon Appetit, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The scribbler who penned the cryptic note remained anonymous—until now.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Their quest is one shared by the legions of traders, techies, online scribblers, and gamblers and grifters mesmerized by Bitcoin.
    — Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • But Wessex isn’t the only challenge facing the struggling scribbler.
    — Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
  • The era of the Vie Romantique was a time of romantic firebrands, idealistic scribblers and the muses they so often, if so briefly, loved.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Some devices, like Acer's Spin 3, have tiny scribblers that hide inside their chassis, and others simply have magnetic edges that the pen is supposed to stick to.
    — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 6 July 2019
  • The notebooks are also heavier and handsomer than the typical pocket scribbler.
    — Michael Calore, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
  • At times certainly; that’s an occupational hazard, and not the worst one, for scribblers advising the Prince.
    — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 20 July 2017
  • Despite its sham humility, this bitter retort to the scribblers who denied him the last measure of greatness falls short for a want of tough-minded self-analysis.
    — Jamie James, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
  • The PenAgain�s odd shape reduces hand cramps and calluses by encouraging scribblers to extend their fingers instead of curling them.
    — Sonia Zjawinski, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2002
  • Kenzie Smith could be spotted at the park, circulating among friends, but refused all interview requests from the many TV cameras and notebook scribblers who were documenting the barbecue.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • All remaining scribblers should lay down their squibs and come out, squinting, arms aloft in surrender.
    — Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025
  • Try your hand at drawing a model, whether your a pro or a scribbler.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024

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