blackboard
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Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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
Like the pigeons he had seen in the city, this one was mostly gray, the color of eraser-smeared blackboard.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
"How can you rehabilitate classrooms if you don't have cement? And above all, we need notebooks and books ... blackboards, the bare minimum," said Beigbeder.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
I remember how excited and happy I was even though my school had no chairs, no blackboards, no books — the classroom in ruins from the war.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
—Some of us children, due to a chronic shortage of buildings, desks, blackboards and benches, would have to be relocated in shacks down by the river.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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