blackboard

Example Sentences

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Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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

One of the first buildings players enter - the local pub, of course - has a blackboard outside advertising today's special.

From BBC • Aug. 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

Miss Throckmorton'd been playing Hangman on the blackboard one afternoon with sunlight streaming in.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell