: 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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Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 11 June 2025
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
Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Then came a lengthy process in the months to come of Rey scribbling massive doodles in a highly visible parking lot just a few blocks from Coors Field.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 June 2025
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Verb
That isn’t the case in this bundle, which sees $200 slashed off of not only a keyboard, but also a stylus that can be used to write and doodle on the 12-inch Vivid PixelSense display like paper.
—Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 11 June 2025
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
Noun
Pepe the Frog became political, then hate symbol, during 2016 election
The frog doodle in clown accessories that flashes in the video is known as Pepe the Frog, and its appearance in Trump's social media posts has sparked interest before.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Then came a lengthy process in the months to come of Rey scribbling massive doodles in a highly visible parking lot just a few blocks from Coors Field.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 June 2025
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“Doodle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doodle. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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