How to Use signboard in a Sentence

signboard

noun
  • The white signboard rose thirty feet into the sky from behind a chain link fence.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
  • Then, signboards and street names, passersby, roofs, kiosks, and bars must speak to the wanderer like a twig snapping under his foot in the forest.
    Lauren Elkin, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The group was ordered to stop its activities and to take down its signboards nationwide by July 15.
    The Associated Press, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2017
  • Then dip beneath a railroad bridge that runs alongside the river, before coming to a wooden signboard.
    Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • The signboard is currently covered with blank, white paper.
    Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • In South Korea, the storm toppled hundreds of trees and streetlamps, blew signboards off buildings and damaged traffic signs across the mainland and Jeju.
    Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Siddhartha may be gone, but his legacy will live through the bright purple signboards at every other crossing in large and small Indian cities.
    Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 30 July 2019
  • That debris was the signboard alerting drivers to construction at Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek.
    Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2019
  • And an advertising signboard blew over shortly after play was called.
    Southland Golf, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The coastal plain river is dotted with signboards blaming flooding on federal wildlife refuge managers, as opposed to harsher storms and higher tides.
    Bill Marr, National Geographic, 28 Oct. 2016
  • The coastal plain river is dotted with signboards blaming flooding on federal wildlife refuge managers, as opposed to harsher storms and higher tides.
    National Geographic, 28 Oct. 2016
  • Another striking moment came when Kim and Moon chatted while strolling slowly to a footbridge in Panmunjom, where a rusty signboard marking the military demarcation line stands.
    Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • A message that appeared to threaten President Trump was reportedly found Saturday morning on a signboard outside an elementary school in Bethesda.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 July 2017
  • Some have affixed messages onto their hardhats, transforming them into personal mobile signboards.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 26 July 2019

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