How to Use go back to the drawing board in a Sentence

go back to the drawing board

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• If so, theorists will have to go back to the drawing board.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011
• 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
• The company will go back to the drawing board to find a solution, Randall said.
  — Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2020
• Moving slowly makes sense, lest a retailer must go back to the drawing board as Gap did.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023
• But after a similar product with worse results this Sunday, the Browns have to go back to the drawing board.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
• After two years of working with the IDB to ensure proper due diligence, the company had to go back to the drawing board.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• However, later on, issues might arise within the group, or a flawed plan could require you all to go back to the drawing board.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• That has prompted companies to go back to the drawing board and unveil punchier flavors.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 28 May 2022
• Instead, before the calendar even turned to March, the Dodgers were forced to go back to the drawing board to come up with a new way to bolster their suddenly thinning depth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• If the Board rejects Shorter, the mayor’s office must go back to the drawing board to find another candidate.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2022
• The lawyer said those injuries wouldn’t be redressable, unlike those of his clients, who wanted the administration to go back to the drawing board on its plan.
  — Andrew Restuccia, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• But, under a reform plan passed in 2018, the Ohio Supreme Court can force lawmakers to go back to the drawing board to comply with certain criteria laid out in the reform plan.
  — Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2020
• Too many lopsided, low-scoring games means that the Football Team needs to go back to the drawing board altogether in order to improve the offense.
  — Emily Iannaconi, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• And because the current law is based on wetlands classes, were the task force to recommend class changes and were the legislature to adopt those changes, the current wetlands law could go back to the drawing board.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2021
• After each one, West would go back to the drawing board and demand seemingly endless revisions.
  — Kyle Eustice, Variety, 3 Dec. 2021
• And this is if everything goes swimmingly, without any setbacks or errors that require the company to go back to the drawing board.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
• After seeing plans for remaking the Provo Temple, hundreds of Latter-day Saints are asking church leaders to go back to the drawing board by, in essence, not going back to the drawing board.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2021
• With all the changes, and considering how business conditions have changed, why not go back to the drawing board and perhaps choose a different developer?
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2022
• Not long after, Cinda decided against participating in the capital raise, forcing Ant to go back to the drawing board.
  — Clarence Leong, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• Wednesday’s decision by the county to go back to the drawing board instead of seeking an appeal at the State Supreme Court comes after the county spent more than $1 million in legal fees defending its climate action plans in recent years.
  — Charles T. Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
• Panic had to go back to the drawing board on account of silicon prices and availability changing drastically, among other issues.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
• Both Kaplan and Tolley echoed the release in saying the 102nd General Assembly should go back to the drawing board and craft meaningful legislation that follows the constitutional process of how a bill should become a law.
  — Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
• The nattering nabobs of negativity are going to have to go back to the drawing board as today’s release beat estimates significantly.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024