checkerboard

Example Sentences

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He noted that black and white squares also can make weird nonperiodic patterns, in addition to the familiar, periodic checkerboard pattern.

From New York Times

A speckled black-and-white checkerboard near the upper right is nothing like a scrap of squiggly reddish stripes at the bottom, which is wholly unlike the cell-like splotches of pink and gray at the upper left.

From Los Angeles Times

The grid — a modernist pictorial device that she deploys with postmodernist bathos — is rendered in wonky, spray-painted lines or a loose pink and brown checkerboard.

From New York Times

One of the locations is mirrored after an Italian deli, and it has green-and-white checkerboard flooring, deli cases, and even tomato cans and olive oil canisters as props.

From Seattle Times

But the land is a checkerboard of ownership, and the Utes don’t control everything within the boundaries.

From Washington Times