How to Use chalkboard in a Sentence
chalkboard
noun-
Her giggles are like fingernails down a chalkboard, and her inability to scream at the interns is unsettling.
— Lincee Ray, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024 -
The crew neck shirt featured a Balenciaga logo on a chalkboard gray front, while the back featured a leopard print in brown, tan and cream.
— Maggie Clancy, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 -
Its once-colorful walls were repainted milky white, and the chalkboard was replaced with a bulletin board, littered with information about health care and nutritional meals for the elderly.
— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024 -
Sit at the sushi counter, and train your eyes on the chalkboard menu.
— Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017 -
The menu’s written on an A-frame chalkboard sign just to the left.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 5 Aug. 2021 -
Glue the cork discs, one on top of the other, on the bottom left of the chalkboard.
— Kris Coronado, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020 -
The wheels of the chalkboard, however, got stuck on the ramp.
— Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 19 July 2022 -
The final score on the chalkboard was Blues 22, Akron 17.
— Beth Mlady, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019 -
Check out the chalkboard in the bathroom, which lists the farms the restaurant sources from.
— Devorah Lev-Tov, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2017 -
The menu changes daily and is listed on the chalkboard in the main lodge.
— Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024 -
This chili salt tastes the way an old-school chalkboard smells.
— Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2021 -
The menu is always changing the old-school way — via a chalkboard in the deli.
— Alex Darus, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023 -
The sound of chalk on a chalkboard is pretty darn bad, too.
— Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 8 June 2022 -
The cardboard getting moved off of the cup is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
— USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024 -
Those doors and the walls are painted with chalkboard paint.
— Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 1 July 2013 -
The characters and treatment of the tropes are like nails on a chalkboard to me.
— R29 Team, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2024 -
Some of the chalkboards were also saved, framed by the new drywall.
— Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 5 July 2023 -
Staff dish up food behind the counter, and a chalkboard menu takes up a large part of one wall.
— Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 28 Sep. 2021 -
In January 2013, Buschmann was asked to fill in and do the chalkboard one night.
— Amy Haneline, Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2018 -
The cracking of that plastic is like nails on a chalkboard.
— Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 24 June 2020 -
Behind the red and woodgrain counter, a chalkboard menu and, of course, shelves flush with bagels.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 27 Aug. 2020 -
Try the chalkboard-look version or the white background — or mix and match both.
— Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022 -
The menu has moved to a chalkboard on the wall, the wine service to the bar, where all bottles are opened and glasses poured.
— Matt Goulding, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020 -
Josh, 22, gets credit for the Broomstick Café name and not-so-tasty menu on the chalkboard.
— Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2021 -
This $8 wooden chalkboard features two sides: one for the first day of school and the other for the last.
— Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 3 Aug. 2024 -
Each wore their school uniforms and held a first day of school chalkboard sign.
— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2019 -
Co-founder Justin Kalolo had written the words on the chalkboard.
— NBC News, 8 May 2017 -
This is a person who makes Glenn Beck and his chalkboard look quaint.
— Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2014 -
Check the chalkboard near the register to learn where in Maine or Canada the day’s catch is from.
— Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 31 Oct. 2017 -
Those things that are hard to draw up on the chalkboard, and how fast things are going to happen.
— Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 31 May 2021
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