[ UK /skɹˈæbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈskɹæbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an aimless drawing
VERB
  1. feel searchingly
    She groped for his keys in the dark
  2. write down quickly without much attention to detail
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How To Use scrabble In A Sentence

  • Scrabble to its list of more commonplace activity holidays, such as painting and gardening. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this context the survivors in the UK electricity market will continue to scrabble for scale.
  • February 24, 2006 4: 56 PM bibliobibuli said ... visitor - you sure naughty one chatting up the girls again. what your ah mooi going to say this time? anna - sorry you were scrabbled, but at least you can take your piccy from here Meet Up and Scribble Night
  • Everyone in our office is playing email Scrabble.
  • His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
  • She turned to Ian enquiringly, as the boy scrabbled frantically on the floor looking for coins.
  • I play the most satisfying words in Scrabble, not the highest-scoring or the most strategically advantageous and will take myself out with the lead piping if I am ever forced to play Cluedo again. TV review: The Great British Bake-Off, The Making of King Arthur and Ideal
  • Like ‘solution’ or the blank tiles in Scrabble, you can use it anywhere, though it adds no other value.
  • It might also have to do with having been the underdog for so long so that women kind of scrabble in these different jobs. The End Of The Macho Man?
  • Anyway, the point is (to get back to Scrabble) that the Scrabble-player plays anagrams with the letters in front of him or her - order out of chaos again, you see.
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