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
This is Ukraine’s big sky country: huge expanses of table-flat land, laid out in a checkerboard of gigantic fields.
From New York Times
A grid of blue, balloon-like blobs are pinned against a checkerboard shooting range.
From The Verge
Its black-and-white checkerboard pattern has been complicated with three or four subsidiary weft-weave patterns in red, green and orange as well as black and white.
From New York Times
These purple-shadowed scenes are painted on small square canvases that are arranged in checkerboard patterns, leaving both symbolic and actual open space to separate them.
From Washington Post
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