How to Use blackboard in a Sentence

blackboard

noun

• 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 teacher had asked his pupils to step up to the blackboard and describe a scene from nature.
  — Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Every day the restaurant posts 10 to 12 dishes on a blackboard.
  — Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• According to a press release, customers will be able to play pool, sit in Moe’s office, write their punishments on the blackboard and more.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024