checkerboard

Example Sentences

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It would eventually become a checkerboard model strikingly similar to Sakoda’s.

From New York Times

Outside the cemetery’s checkerboard of graves, which were festooned on Sunday with fresh flowers and where children ran about collecting candy, the village of Staryi Saltiv is a grim tableau of ruins.

From New York Times

The checkerboard green-and-white umbrellas of Augusta National became the dominant sight across the hilly landscape of Augusta National.

From Washington Post

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

They were tank mines, hundreds of them, laid out in a checkerboard pattern across his field and presenting a deadly conundrum before the spring planting season.

From New York Times