How to Use clipboard in a Sentence

clipboard

noun
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  • Arizona’s Paul Goldschmidt wrote in signing the clipboard).
    Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
  • Reyes, the high school senior with the clipboard, wants to be a social worker and thus is sensitive to the needs of his classmates who fear the bees.
    Courant Community, 8 June 2017
  • Many people walked past the clipboard holders without acknowledging them, but others did stop and sign.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2017
  • Jones’ clipboard has seemingly a hundred pages stacked, at least one for each day, many of them filled with reported incidents.
    Casey Harper | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Aug. 2024
  • For example, users will be able to share information saved on a clipboard, or pick up tasks on one machine that were left off on another.
    Dina Bass, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • Another hot deal is on this 30-pack of clipboards, which is under $35 for Prime members.
    Casey Clark, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
  • More than a thousand volunteers equipped with flashlights and clipboards set out to identify everyone on the streets and in shelters.
    Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
  • Detectives, wearing black vests over dress shirts and carrying police department clipboards, stood in a line near the sidewalk.
    Peter Nickeas, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • One of the thieves presented him the clipboard, but Hong was already on the phone trying to verify the order with his manager.
    Brian Ballou, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 May 2017
  • Lindsey will have full control of the offense, as Malzahn has taken a step back and handed over the reins to his new right-hand man, retiring his clipboard in the process.
    Tom Green, AL.com, 6 July 2017
  • Today, the scouts and birddogs with their radar guns and clipboards, and wearing their khakis and sunscreen, are bolstered by the artificial intelligence back at the home office.
    Tom Powers, Twin Cities, 19 May 2017
  • The student had been running around the classroom with a clipboard, threatening to hit other children, and when the teacher tried to take it from him, she was hit in the head, according to the report.
    Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 30 May 2017
  • Each morning Sumner loaded that day’s eviction papers into a metal clipboard and drove his plain white Crown Victoria across his precinct.
    Alden Woods, azcentral, 16 July 2017
  • The agent dropped his clipboard and raised his hands in the air.
    Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Hey, white dude with the clipboard, check all the pages.
    Aric Jenkins, Time, 5 Mar. 2018
  • He was sometimes known to stomp on the hat or toss the clipboard.
    Dave Southorn and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 26 July 2017
  • The night man flipped through the papers on his clipboard and pulled the brass door wide.
    Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The first man came up from the basement and struck the resident with the clipboard.
    Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Michelle Miller [to the woman with clipboard]: Hi, what are these?
    CBS News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The reps jabbed their ballpoint pens at my heels and scratched notes on clipboards.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Emerging from a flat board, like a clipboard that has a tail in the middle!
    Maggie Lange, The Cut, 28 June 2018
  • Then came this season, with on Carson Wentz at the helm and Foles on the clipboard.
    Michael Bamberger, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Pittman showed me a red clipboard with the waiting list of people who have called in the past 10 days.
    Washington Post, 15 May 2022
  • Guests may also feel free to bring their own lawn chair and clipboard.
    courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The man checks a clipboard and says Vasily’s shift hasn’t started yet.
    Paul Yoon, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
  • This will find the URL in your clipboard and offer you links to the song on other platforms.
    Justin Pot, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The arrival of the cylinders is marked on a clipboard, and half a dozen young men shoulder them off the truck and reload used ones.
    Washington Post, 24 June 2020
  • Free up some of that clutter by hanging a wall of clipboards.
    Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Gone was the visor and clipboard, replaced with a guitar and mic.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 24 May 2023

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