: an aimless or casual scribble, design, or sketch
also
: a minor work
Examples of doodle in a Sentence
Verb
She doodled in her notebook instead of taking notes.
I plan to spend the entire vacation just doodling.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Inspired, Goetz started mocking up potential brand names and doodling logos during a class in 2009.
—Tom Huddleston Jr.
raffi Paul, CNBC, 19 June 2025
Brock Colyar, Curbed, 24 June 2025
Material features can also include things like colophons—formulas at the end of a text that attest to its completeness and fidelity and often also include the name of the copyist—doodles in the margins, mistakes and corrections, even handwriting style.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
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Verb
That transgression continued two years later, when Duchamp doodled a mustache and beard on a postcard of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and called it L.H.O.O.Q., which, when spoken aloud in French, sounded like an obscenity.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Inspired, Goetz started mocking up potential brand names and doodling logos during a class in 2009.
—Tom Huddleston Jr.
raffi Paul, CNBC, 19 June 2025
Noun
Nearby, someone’s toddler doodles with a crayon in between bites of caviar.
—Brock Colyar, Curbed, 24 June 2025
Material features can also include things like colophons—formulas at the end of a text that attest to its completeness and fidelity and often also include the name of the copyist—doodles in the margins, mistakes and corrections, even handwriting style.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Doodle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doodle. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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