blackboard
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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
As I walked home carrying the heavy manuscript, I remembered attending one of Dr. Kerry’s lectures, which he had begun by writing, “Who writes history?” on the blackboard.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Supporters on both sides are claiming victory based on images circulating on social media of blackboards and papers tallying the results.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
Children will find plenty of chalk at the back-to-school celebration in Lower Manhattan on Friday, but they won’t use it to write on blackboards.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
Guests can tour classrooms where blackboards, walls and ceilings were warped by the water.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
Small, framed windows covered the wall facing Main Street School and on the opposite wall hung long and narrow blackboards.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
