How to Use chalkboard in a Sentence

chalkboard

noun
  • What’s the best chalkboard to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This chili salt tastes the way an old-school chalkboard smells.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2021
  • Sit at the sushi counter, and train your eyes on the chalkboard menu.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • All of this work was done on chalkboards and in notebooks.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Just watch their movements at a chalkboard.
    — Matthew Hutson, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Each wore their school uniforms and held a first day of school chalkboard sign.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2019
  • Finish with a small chalkboard sign.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The menu isn’t printed on a chalkboard or handed to you on a card.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The menu changes daily and is listed on the chalkboard in the main lodge.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024
  • Staff dish up food behind the counter, and a chalkboard menu takes up a large part of one wall.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 28 Sep. 2021
  • For me, sitting on a beach is akin to clawing my nails down a chalkboard.
    — Fariha Róisín, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Some of the chalkboards were also saved, framed by the new drywall.
    — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • The menu’s written on an A-frame chalkboard sign just to the left.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The cardboard getting moved off of the cup is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The wheels of the chalkboard, however, got stuck on the ramp.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 19 July 2022
  • The menu is always changing the old-school way — via a chalkboard in the deli.
    — Alex Darus, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Try the chalkboard-look version or the white background — or mix and match both.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Glue the cork discs, one on top of the other, on the bottom left of the chalkboard.
    — Kris Coronado, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Check out the chalkboard in the bathroom, which lists the farms the restaurant sources from.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2017
  • On one side, kids can color the chalkboard side, or flip it over and use it as a whiteboard.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Those things that are hard to draw up on the chalkboard, and how fast things are going to happen.
    — Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 31 May 2021
  • Behind the red and woodgrain counter, a chalkboard menu and, of course, shelves flush with bagels.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Use a mini chalkboard and a chalk pen to create small labels.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This is a person who makes Glenn Beck and his chalkboard look quaint.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2014
  • The characters and treatment of the tropes are like nails on a chalkboard to me.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Equations define lines that carry on off the chalkboard, but to where?
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Just inside the door is a chalkboard with the girls’ assignments.
    — Anthony J. Wallace | Cronkite News, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The reversible tabletop has a play scene on one side and a chalkboard on the other for hours of fun.
    — Kayla Kitts, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Some words on the chalkboard were redacted before their release.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Pick your fish from the chalkboard, choose your preparation, then watch the wood-fire theatrics.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026

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