blackboard

What I miss most is closing my eyes at night, then opening them and it’s morning, that total submersion, yesterday’s problems wiped away like algebraic equations on a junior-high blackboard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

"It may be like chalk on the blackboard, it may grate a little bit, but I am telling you something that is really quite honest," he said on Saturday.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

The host walked me to the seating at the back of the restaurant, and we passed a huge blackboard that read, “Leave a message for Mr. G or Lady G.”

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2024

Even though it might be the same observation about the world, about what's on the other side of a blackboard, that feels different coming from the voice of a child.

From Salon ● May 22, 2024

Seven looked over the blackboard Valley had just finished writing on and committed it to memory—they would find the Nightbeast while it was still in its weak state by luring and following cucos.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

"How can you rehabilitate classrooms if you don't have cement? And above all, we need notebooks and books ... blackboards, the bare minimum," said Beigbeder.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025

It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022

Children will find plenty of chalk at the back-to-school celebration in Lower Manhattan on Friday, but they won’t use it to write on blackboards.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

Guests can tour classrooms where blackboards, walls and ceilings were warped by the water.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

The blackboards, the rough wooden floor, the uncomfortable-looking chairs were almost exactly the same.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac