How to Use corkboard in a Sentence

corkboard

noun
  • In one of the rooms, a corkboard hangs on a closet door.
    Molly Creeden, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • So there's hundreds of these pieces of art on each corkboard.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • And then a week or two later, there's a second corkboard full.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • An elaborate typed outline of his book in progress is tacked to corkboards lining the walls.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Above one table at Judy’s Place is a corkboard tacked with stories about Patrick Marleau.
    Mike Guersch, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pinned to a corkboard in the office is a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Ginsberg.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • On the wall is a corkboard dotted with cutouts of articles, court papers and photographs.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • The corkboard panel on the back of the hutch allows for pinning mementos and important papers.
    Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s also a corkboard with names of characters, and a few with pending ideas, currently in limbo.
    Rob Tannenbaum, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2015
  • 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
  • Jennie’s side of the room had a plush, burgundy recliner and a corkboard adorned with family photographs.
    AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Part coffee pod holder, part corkboard, this storage unit seems tailor made for extremely harried households.
    Popular Science, 2 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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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