In the lower right-hand corner were a few scratchy lines that I might otherwise have mistaken for a few scratchy lines.

DeBeck drew with a scratchy line, and his characters had giant feet and bulbous noses-what is traditionally called a "big-foot" style.

He had a scratchy line, and drew characters with bulbous noses and giant feet.

His voice sounded hollow and strange on the scratchy line.

The company has let its network deteriorate in parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx, where corroded wires lead to scratchy lines and service outages.

Near one side of the stream he made a long oval; to the left, some short, scratchy lines; among these, a heavy, elongated dot.

"They found the boy," the girl I was speaking with said over the scratchy line.

In a few scratchy lines, this tigerish, stumpy-tailed animal and his gentle, spherical owner spring to life and immortality.

In his earliest years with Mad, Martin used a more jagged, scratchy line.

I telephoned, down a long and scratchy line.