How to Use drawing board in a Sentence

drawing board

noun
  • The loss of the deal now sends Broadcom back to the drawing board.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • Of course, Sony has since gone back to the drawing board.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2021
  • That means, for now, Leipzig is back to the drawing board.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Lenovo went back to the drawing board, and the third time might be the charm.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 11 Jan. 2022
  • But things didn't work out, so back to the drawing board.
    Paul Newberry, ajc, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The girls head straight to the drawing board and mock up a comeback plan.
    Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
  • That, in turn, sent the group back to the drawing board for this year’s outing.
    Gary Graff, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The Browns will have to go back to the drawing board on third down after this game.
    cleveland, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The Academy needs to go back to the drawing board on this.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 11 May 2022
  • Instead, take some time and go back to the drawing board.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • In other words, two cheers for what’s on the drawing board.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
  • But those projects are nowhere close to getting off the drawing board.
    NBC News, 8 June 2021
  • So the park’s designers went back to the drawing board again.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
  • When the first version of AllHere failed, Smith went back to the drawing board.
    Geri Stengel, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Something like this should have been on the drawing board weeks ago.
    Bill Rodriguez and Jim Galvan, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Then the drawing board met the boardroom, and the haggling began.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Some of your lofty goals might take a trip back to the drawing board until after the New Year.
    The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Town officials there said the projects were still on the drawing board.
    Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • But back to the drawing board ... which reveals some very winnable games over next five weeks.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Marcus and his colleagues went back to the drawing board.
    Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
  • It’s the end of an era for Richards in girls tennis and time for a trip back to the drawing board for coach Connor Reynolds.
    Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • So Biden told them to go back to the drawing board, gather more facts and give us a report in 90 days.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 4 June 2021
  • But there aren’t many new mills on the drawing board for North America.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 17 May 2021
  • The rapid onslaught of new variants has sent some firms back to the drawing board while spurring others to call it quits.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Officials went back to the drawing board and plan to open the bidding process July 6.
    Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 3 July 2021
  • Now, Ohio lawmakers will be sent back to the drawing board to craft a new map within 30 days.
    Jessie Balmert, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2022
  • In the last year or so, my favorite striped tee was discontinued and I was forced to go back to the drawing board.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2022
  • As far as Feder is concerned, however, the city needs to go back to the drawing board.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2021
  • Lots of stuff, but right above my drawing board is a thing that Liana Finck did for the magazine about the work/life landscape.
    Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2020
  • But the public site near the island, promised shortly after the tragedy, remains on the drawing board.
    Mark Lewis, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021

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