scribble away
Frequency: 6.51.8 per million words
to continue scribbling for a period of time, often absorbed in the activity
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- The students were all scribbling away furiously during the lecture.
- She would often scribble away in her notebook, lost in her thoughts.
- He scribbled away at his novel for hours, ignoring everything else.
- Despite the noise, the artist continued to scribble away on her sketchpad.
- They were asked to scribble away ideas for the new project.
- Don't just scribble away; try to organize your thoughts.
- The child happily scribbled away with crayons on the paper.
- I saw him scribbling away notes throughout the entire conference.
- She had been scribbling away poems since she was a teenager.
- If you just scribble away without thinking, the result won't be good.