: to cause (text or graphics on a display screen) to move in scrolling
Examples of scroll in a Sentence
Noun
He read from the scroll.
a scarf with lovely green scrolls on it Verb
You have to scroll the screen to see the bottom of the Web page.
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Noun
This means how Chrome users interact with your website—their clicks, time on site, bounce rate and scroll depth—may matter as much, if not more, than traditional signals like backlinks.—Jason Hall, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025 The vertical scroll format, originally designed for mobile consumption, translates surprisingly well to animation.—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 July 2025
Verb
Characters are constantly on their phones or computers, scrolling social media, watching YouTube, and going down various rabbit holes about government conspiracies, mask-wearing, and whatever else reinforces their worldviews.—Barry Levitt, Time, 23 July 2025 Snag the petite-friendly trousers that will easily transition to my fall wardrobe, and keep scrolling to shop more comfortable pant styles from Alo Yoga.—Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 22 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for scroll
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English scrowle, blend of rolle roll and scrowe scrap, scroll (from Anglo-French escrowe, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch schrode piece cut off, Old High German scrōt) — more at shred entry 1
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