What's the difference between scrabbled and scribbled?
Scrabbled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Scrabble
Example Sentences:
(1) Even a Scrabble board is used as a weapon in our show.
(2) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(3) While all this is going on, the new Syriza-led government of cash-starved Greece will be scrabbling for every last cent to repay the next €450m (£330m) instalment of the country’s loan from the IMF.
(4) People who never dreamed that one day they would not be able to pay their electricity bill, or feed their children properly.” As it has scrabbled for every last cent to satisfy its creditors and ward off bankruptcy, Greece’s government has taken cash wherever it could – local authorities, healthcare, pensions, social services have all been tapped.
(5) "I think it does feel as if everybody is still scrabbling trying to work out which model works best but it is not as wild as it was," she said.
(6) A rise in government spending to cope with higher social security bills, combined with a fall in tax receipts, has left the Treasury scrabbling to meet its borrowing target for the end of the year.
(7) Our Scrabble board had Velcro on the back, as did each alphabet piece.
(8) The new movie marks a partial return to the thematic territory of Rosetta , which concerned a teenage girl scrabbling around for menial jobs.
(9) Valdés was so unprepared after De Gea had strained his hamstring that the game was delayed by almost three minutes as he scrabbled to get his kit ready.
(10) Meanwhile, there is the unseemly scrabble, documented by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, for the very wealthiest to hold on to those increasingly scarce stable professions that guarantee a large income and access to social goods at the very top of society ( theguardian.com , 26 July).
(11) Spain is scrabbling to meet a deficit target of 3.7% by the end of the financial year while the UK's is likely to still be above 6%.
(12) They shot from the balcony.” “Everyone scrabbled to the ground.
(13) That is the reason I was scrabbling in the playground, picking up nails.
(14) If Labour scrapes in via a Lib Dem coalition, as looks likely, the Lib Dems will be scrabbling around to appoint someone female.
(15) The fact that researchers have concluded that there is “ no benefit to attending a grammar school for high-attaining pupils ” makes the unedifying scrabble even more sad.
(16) He continued to live off his notoriety, posing for photographs with tourists in exchange for money, selling souvenir T-shirts that commemorated his escapes, scrabbling for crumbs from the media table and charging tourists £40 for a barbecue at his house.
(17) Why do we have to scrabble around for spare cash to counteract cartoonishly unjust policies such as the bedroom tax that attempt to balance Britain’s books at the expense of predominantly poor disabled people, they wonder.
(18) Perhaps, more importantly, the success of the iPhone has also made Apple massively influential in the competitive mobile market, with its rivals scrabbling to build their own phones that mimic the iPhone's touch-sensitive screen, downloadable applications and user-friendly web browsing.
(19) Users can now give gifts to friends, post free classified advertisements and even develop their own applications - graffiti and Scrabble are particularly popular.
(20) And, like Steve, their housing benefit will be docked, so they will be left scrabbling just to make the rent and keep a roof above their heads.
Scribbled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Scribble
Example Sentences:
(1) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
(2) When he eventually walked to the podium, the typed final version was once more full of crossings out and scribbles.
(3) The significance of two handwritten numbers scribbled almost imperceptibly on the back had been overlooked until now.
(4) Steve Cole is best known as the ever-scribbling, slightly crazy author of the Astrosaurs book series – featuring dinosaurs in space – as well as Cows in Action and The Slime Squad.
(5) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
(6) Well, it’s one way to stop your toddlers scribbling on the wall.
(7) I remember being so stunned by the figure I scribbled it at the top of my notebook, as a reminder to ask him about it.
(8) Jamie Jackson is our man on the Manchester beat and he's been reading Moyes's scribblings for the benefit of those of us not lucky enough to be at Old Trafford tonight.
(9) It was time for Mourinho to reach for the hotel scribbling pad to plan for the future and Barcelona to celebrate their superiority in a four-game series that threatened to relocate to the politics pages, and leaves a pile of disciplinary issues still to face.
(10) Foremost among them is the unique position of power that officers of the law are placed in, by the role that the scribbled remarks in their logbooks play in defining the facts.
(11) Then I saw he had scribbled out a mistake in Jamie's name.
(12) It wasn't to scribble compromises on the back of a pizza box.
(13) That curve was famously scribbled by Laffer on a napkin over cocktails with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974, and helped underpin Reagan’s so-called trickle-down economics – as well as launching Laffer’s career as one of the most influential economists in Republican circles.
(14) The envelope on which the calculations were scribbled has apparently been thrown away.
(15) A few days earlier Richard Helms, director of the CIA, had scribbled notes on a meeting in Washington with Nixon, Kissinger and John Mitchell, the US attorney general, where the president demanded a coup.
(16) Coming back to the novel now, in my early 30s, is like discovering an old diary: in the writing of her four experimental notebooks, Anna puts her politics and personal life under reflexive scrutiny, with constant self-questioning; in the turned-down corners and scribbled margins of certain of those pages, I tried to do the same.
(17) Then I ask: “Why are you there?” This time, I get an answer: “Interview requests must be registered in advance, on this side as on yours.” Lines scribbled in my notebook.
(18) She hears one of Castro's guerrillas or an Algerian freedom fighter ask "Why aren't you doing something about us, instead of wasting your time scribbling?"
(19) As Mr Cowell and Mr Fuller rattled through their idea for an ambitious new show to identify an unknown British singing star, Boyd scribbled notes on two sides of jotting paper during the hour-long meeting.
(20) He shakes my hand with a wordless nod and I scribble a brief impression in my notebook: "glazed eyes".