How to Use clipboard in a Sentence

clipboard

noun

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• Coughs and moans echo through the halls, and a nurse with a clipboard makes her rounds.
  — Roger Naylor and Scott Craven, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• The man, wearing a face mark and what appear to be gloves, briefly holds a clipboard with a white paper up to the camera.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2024
• The bakery’s ‘threat of activation’ The bread on the shelves, the hanging clipboard, and the flowers in this shot were all drawn on animation cels.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• Instead of one volunteer with a clipboard getting maybe a few dozen or even a hundred people to register in a day, these guys precisely reach millions of the voters the campaign needs.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Children should take a pen/pencil and a clipboard, plus a compass for the group.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2017
• The clipboard weighs three pounds, which is pretty heavy to carry around all day.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 12 May 2011
• Gone was the visor and clipboard, replaced with a guitar and mic.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2023
• Pack homework, desk supplies, and a clipboard to work on.
  — Kristi Valentini, Good Housekeeping, 31 July 2019
• If anything, handing the clipboard to a total nobody is the safest bet in sports.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• Instead, this comes down to a quirk of how the data is made available on the clipboard by Windows.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 8 June 2022
• In one swift motion, Molly slams the clipboard on the steering wheel, making the car horn beep.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Redd opened her clipboard to prove there wasn't a weapon hidden inside.
  — AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• On her first day of college, Ola Louisa Watson brought a clipboard.
  — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 13 July 2021
• The shuttle’s doors were open; a driver was checking names off a clipboard.
  — Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024