checkerboard

Example Sentences

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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

The presence of foreign fighters is yet another complicating factor, a reflection of the bewildering checkerboard of contending forces operating inside the country.

From Washington Times

Because federal officials had given the other pieces of the checkerboard to the South Pacific Coast Railroad, which they hoped would build a rail connection between California and Arizona.

From Los Angeles Times