How to use blackboard in a sentence

More sentences with blackboard

• The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.From the entry rub out
• The professor stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, and chewed the question the student had asked.From the entry chew
• After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard.From the entry deliberately
• I put up a wallchart of the periodic table next to the blackboard.From the entry wallchart
• Standing next to the blackboard in a dangerously short dress, the physics professor was astonishingly racktacular.From the entry racktacular
• The word blackboard as applied to green or brown chalkboards is a misnomer but is not incorrect, as the broad sense of the word is idiomatic.From the entry misnomer
• The reality is that the typical classroom teacher still uses a blackboard and chalk.1992 August 2, Peter H. Lewis, “Low-Tech Renewal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry overhead projector
• The computer is but another vehicle to employ in helping people learn, a cousin of books, films, blackboards, chalk, gerbils, abacuses.1974, Theodore R[yland] Sizer, “Foreword”, in Allan B. Ellis, The Use & Misuse of Computers in Education, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book…. From the entry abacus
• The mousse was excellent, but it had a chalky undertaste that reminded Rosemary of blackboards and grade school.1967, Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby. From the entry undertaste
• I’d bonfire the books, drain the inkwells and bust up the blackboard — if only he would stop hating.1957 November 14, Sputnik [pseudonym], “My Son Hates School”, in Daily Record, number 19,357, Glasgow: Scottish Daily Record and Sunday…. From the entry capitulate
• Against the blackboard surface of the sky, flycrafts whizzed by, leaving crisscrossing trails of radiance that slowly dissipated, soon replaced by others.2018, Bill Campbell, Francesco Verso, Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction. From the entry flycraft
• Beyond this was a smaller waiting-room on the westermost side, and on the far wall was a blackboard on which incoming arrival times were listed.2014, George Harmon Coxe, The Frightened Fiancée. From the entry westermost
• For the main course, order any of the fresh fish from the blackboard; the swordfish is always wonderful (and nicely undercooked, unless you specify otherwise).1987 April, “Restaurants”, in Orange Coast Magazine, volume 13, number 4, page 80. From the entry undercooked
• One day I watched a professor cover the blackboard with a maze of partial differential equations, and they might as well have been hieroglyphics from the Second Dynasty.2011, Paul Allen, “Wazzu”, in Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, New York, N.Y.: Portfolio, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry Wazzu
• In the villages of Xiping County in Henan Province in central China, students stop visitors and ask them to read a few characters on a blackboard.1994 September 4, Sheryl WuDunn, “China's Rush to Riches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015…. From the entry illiteracy

Meaning of blackboard

1. noun A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.
2. verb To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.

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How do you use blackboard in a sentence?

Blackboard is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.”

What is a short sentence with blackboard?

“After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard.”

What does blackboard mean?

Blackboard means a large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.