[ UK /d‍ʒˈɒtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note
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How To Use jotting In A Sentence

  • All in good fun, we laughingly made our way through the 20-odd questions, secretly jotting down our responses on separate papers.
  • Just a few jottings on an interesting rail topic can make useful copy.
  • Each department bureaucrat made his/her own jottings on the letter and after a while Satyendra Dubey obviously became persona-non-grata and bureaucracy-enemy-number-one.
  • The notes of the tour, set down on his return to Chelsea and republished in 1882, have only the literary merit of the vigorous descriptive touches inseparable from the author's lightest writing; otherwise they are mere rough-and-tumble jottings, with no consecutive meaning, of a rapid hawk's-eye view of the four provinces. Thomas Carlyle
  • In her online jottings, Ms Sanchez talks angrily of how the daily hardships of life under Cuban communism were invariably blamed on America and its economic blockade.
  • The reader is not supposed to have to divine the meaning that lies behind the ramblings and jottings of the writer.
  • Coe worked for eight years on this biography, studying - indeed at times it seems memorising - Johnson's journals, letters, manuscripts and jottings.
  • I tried to make out his sense without the help of the compiler's notes, jotting down in my own note book all the more obscure words with their context as many times as they occurred.
  • He seems to have preserved every draft, complete or not, bits of juvenilia, jottings, letters sent and received.
  • With that in mind, the idea of jotting down our blessings, not only enables us to recall all the wonderful things God has done, but redirect our thoughts from the negativity which so easily besets us. Undefined
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