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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Gissing presents us with a gallery of striving scribblers for whom daily existence in 19th-century London is yet another iteration of the new world of industrial labor.
  — Scott Spencer, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• Aside from making scribblers redundant, a common worry is that such systems will be able to flood social media and online comment sections with semi-coherent but angry ramblings that are designed to divide and enrage.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019

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