How to Use corkboard in a Sentence
corkboard
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In one of the rooms, a corkboard hangs on a closet door.
—Molly Creeden, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
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So there's hundreds of these pieces of art on each corkboard.
—Dan Snierson, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
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And then a week or two later, there's a second corkboard full.
—Dan Snierson, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
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An elaborate typed outline of his book in progress is tacked to corkboards lining the walls.
—Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
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The corkboard with photos of her standing next to the Easter Bunny or being held in Faith’s arms.
—Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
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Above one table at Judy’s Place is a corkboard tacked with stories about Patrick Marleau.
—Mike Guersch, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2017
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Behind him, on a beige wall, a corkboard was hung with badges and bracelets in support of various causes.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
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There was probably a scrap of paper taped up somewhere, or tacked to a corkboard at a local café.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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The team’s experimental chamber is a Perspex cylinder sealed at the top with a corkboard that the ants can hang from.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
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Or was there just a dangerous alchemy that flared when the two shared a conversation and a corkboard?
—Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
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Pinned to a corkboard in the office is a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Ginsberg.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 June 2023
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On the wall is a corkboard dotted with cutouts of articles, court papers and photographs.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
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In a series of new images, the actor can be seen sketching out a design in front of a corkboard covered in fashion drawings.
—CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
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The corkboard panel on the back of the hutch allows for pinning mementos and important papers.
—Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2021
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This is how the Johnson books are composed: First on corkboard, then on a notepad, then typed, and then, after thousands of revisions big and small, published at last.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2021
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And a corkboard wall behind the banquette is the perfect place to display a rotating collection of their kids' artwork.
—Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 10 Nov. 2022
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There’s also a corkboard with names of characters, and a few with pending ideas, currently in limbo.
—Rob Tannenbaum, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2015
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There is a small corkboard next to his bed that his stepdad has Blu-tacked to the wall, covered in a mosaic of photographs of him with his friends, every single one of them smiling.
—Longreads, 31 May 2018
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Birbiglia had his written out on colorful index cards pinned to the corkboard behind his office desk.
—Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2020
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Soni bought a corkboard map of the United States for charting workers’ journeys, and devoted a red pushpin to Gonzalez.
—Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
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Anyone following the Trump-Russia saga in the last few days would probably have noticed their mental corkboards getting a bit crowded with strange new faces.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 13 May 2016
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Fabric samples have been stretched and pinned to a corkboard, sharing space next to thin electrical conduits and sketches of networking design.
—Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
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This earnestness about their feelings means that the hot crying dude is connected by strings on a corkboard to himbos, simping, and cinnamon roll characters too pure for this world.
—Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 24 June 2021
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Lisa remembers a community corkboard with mail from refugees' families trying to find them from another part of the world.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
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Beginners can take a spin in the detective room, complete with fake files, a corkboard for pinning suspect and victim photos, an old-timey typewriter and black-and-white photos.
—Angie Diaz, oregonlive, 23 July 2023
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That has translated into a corkboard wall in one son’s room and a watermelon Quadrille crosshatch wallcovering in the daughter’s room.
—Jennifer Fernandez, House Beautiful, 11 Mar. 2019
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Part coffee pod holder, part corkboard, this storage unit seems tailor made for extremely harried households.
—Popular Science, 2 June 2020
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Her bedroom is a rainbow of organized information, with paper folders mounted against the walls and corkboards plastered with suspect’s photographs, all criss-crossed by string.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 July 2023
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But the deck was not the most enigmatic object left in his dorm—that would be a corkboard leaning up against a wall, with 36 plastic and metal tacks embedded into it, which investigators scrutinized for hidden meaning.
—Jon Peterson, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
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This kitchen workstation takes advantage of vertical space while providing a writing surface, storage shelves, and a spot to display a family calendar and corkboard.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2022
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