How to Use blackboard in a Sentence

blackboard

noun
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  • On the wall, there was a blackboard with chalk and erasers.
    — Shondiin Silversmith, azcentral, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The tall figure strode up to the blackboard behind the lectern.
    — Alexander Kluge, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Due to the four-day ferment, once they're gone, they're erased from the blackboard.
    — Joe Ray, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In girls’ schools, the courage to scrawl a slogan on the blackboard is spreading to younger groups.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Bit by bit, a chalk menagerie of minute ocean creatures fills the blackboard.
    — Emily Underwood, The Atlantic, 8 June 2020
  • The menu, scrawled on a blackboard by the bar, gastropub-style, wasn’t a long one.
    — Marina O’Loughlin, Bon Appetit, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Calderon invited the man to take a seat near the specials of the day scrawled in chalk on a blackboard.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The blackboard behind her still is full of vivid drawings, but the room is bare and silent.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
  • It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.
    — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2022
  • It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again.
    — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 24 July 2020
  • Chris Cormier, one of the dead boys’ friends, had chucked his textbook at the blackboard.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Their teacher standing in front of the room, framed by a blackboard.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
  • To find carvers in town, just listen for the piercing nails-on-a-blackboard sounds.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • The blackboards still hang against the ochre-colored classroom wall.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The Palm Beach Post Two words, simply scrawled on a blackboard in the corner of a locker room.
    — Hal Habib, USA TODAY, 4 May 2020
  • His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, his hair is as dark as a blackboard.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The man steps toward the blackboard and patiently asks her again to read.
    — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Lue and his staff can stand at the blackboard and run through every option in the book, but the math isn’t going to change.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 26 May 2021
  • But in a school without blackboards, the walls become a space to be creative.
    — Katy Bergen, kansascity, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Letters, words and patterns are drawn in chalk on a blackboard.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 11 July 2018
  • Often called the best slate in the world, Peach Bottom slate was used to make blackboards, roof tiles and gravestones.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 25 June 2018
  • On the blackboard remained the notes from their wide-ranging debate.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Kelly kept her focus on the students at the blackboard.
    — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Learn about the Florida Keys from the drawings and writings on the huge blackboard adorning the wall of the outdoor bar.
    — Nancy Moreland, Orlando Signature, 28 July 2017
  • Now, the Larder fills the same space with a modern, clean-lined look of white tile, blackboard menus and one temptation after the next.
    — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Across the street from the bar, the gift store Heart Mercantile displayed a blackboard with the handwritten names of those killed on it.
    — Polo Sandoval, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Tables spill out onto the sunny pavement and a blackboard on the wall denotes the specials of the day.
    — Sophie Davies, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2018
  • On occasion, LaBelle said, he was told to go to the blackboard at the front of a classroom to do a math problem.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • One item on Griffiths' wish list was to have her blackboard painted.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 15 May 2018

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