blackboard
Example Sentences
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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
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
Its breath came again, like a shard of glass down a blackboard.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
