blackboard
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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
Every game was the football equivalent of fingernails down a blackboard.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
Clutched in both Miss Myrt’s waxen hands was the pointer she slapped the map with or pointed to things with on the blackboard.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Images of sheets and blackboards tallying the results have circulated on social media, fuelling victory claims among both Biya and Tchiroma's camps.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Since the blackboards were mounted low for children, “we would crawl and write equations,” Dr. Deser said.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
It has soft-textured, eye- saving green blackboards instead of screechy black ones, and tiled pastel floors instead of the old creaky wooden ones in Queen Mary.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
