BLACKBOARD in a Sentence

Learn BLACKBOARD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
17 example sentences for BLACKBOARD, such as:
1. A pale blackboard crouched in the corner.
2. He obliterated the blackboard before break.
3. She chalked out a design on the blackboard.
4. The teacher told us to look at the blackboard.
5. The professor is leaning against the blackboard.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BLACKBOARD
blackboard
 n.  sheet of slate; for writing with chalk
Classic Sentence:
1  A pale blackboard crouched in the corner.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The blackboard had grown by about two feet, and the seats were still without backs.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  In one corner are the ruins of a stove, and in the other a dim blackboard.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  There was practically no apparatus in the schoolhouses, except that occasionally there was a rough blackboard.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
5  The master sat throned in his great chair upon a raised platform, with his blackboard behind him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  The teacher told us to look at the blackboard.
2  He obliterated the blackboard before break.
3  She chalked out a design on the blackboard.
4  The lecturer illustrated his point with a diagram on the blackboard.
5  The professor is leaning against the blackboard.
6  I can't bear the sound of chalk scraping on a blackboard.
7  With a stick of chalk he wrote her order on a blackboard.
8  Now the master, mellow almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair aside, turned his back to the audience, and began to draw a map of America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon.
9  The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her wince.
10  The teacher wrote on the blackboard with a piece of chalk.
11  Einstein's cleaning the blackboards again? Albert, quit it! A man of your caliber shouldn't have to do such tasks.