How to Use clipboard in a Sentence

clipboard

noun
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  • What are the best clipboards to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The agent dropped his clipboard and raised his hands in the air.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Coughs and moans echo through the halls, and a nurse with a clipboard makes her rounds.
    — Roger Naylor and Scott Craven, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Or sign up for a group camping trip from a clipboard at the bar?
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • He was sometimes known to stomp on the hat or toss the clipboard.
    — Dave Southorn and Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 26 July 2017
  • Guests may also feel free to bring their own lawn chair and clipboard.
    — courant.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The reps jabbed their ballpoint pens at my heels and scratched notes on clipboards.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The night man flipped through the papers on his clipboard and pulled the brass door wide.
    — Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The pair had a bogus work order on a clipboard and fake badges.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Free up some of that clutter by hanging a wall of clipboards.
    — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Like magic, a text fragment link will end up on your clipboard.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 18 June 2020
  • Anyone who signed their name on a clipboard already knows the flaws.
    — Adam Davis, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • Emerging from a flat board, like a clipboard that has a tail in the middle!
    — Maggie Lange, The Cut, 28 June 2018
  • Redd opened her clipboard to prove there wasn't a weapon hidden inside.
    — AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The clipboard weighs three pounds, which is pretty heavy to carry around all day.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 12 May 2011
  • Art supplies and clipboards are available for use.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Teaching is more than just standing there with a clipboard and a whistle.
    — cleveland, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The first man came up from the basement and struck the resident with the clipboard.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Gone was the visor and clipboard, replaced with a guitar and mic.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 24 May 2023
  • Children should take a pen/pencil and a clipboard, plus a compass for the group.
    — Washington Post, 3 May 2017
  • Hand Maye a ball cap and a clipboard and instruct him to watch, listen and learn.
    — Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
  • The man checks a clipboard and says Vasily’s shift hasn’t started yet.
    — Paul Yoon, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The shuttle’s doors were open; a driver was checking names off a clipboard.
    — Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • In effect, the arsonist gets a badge and a clipboard.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Once clicked, a malicious script is copied to the user’s clipboard.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Lively can pair the outfit with a laptop harness or a clipboard; the choice is hers.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • With 13 seconds left and a chance to tie or win, Gard didn’t turn much to a clipboard.
    — Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Ten minutes passed before I was saved by the bearded man and his clipboard.
    — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • If anything, handing the clipboard to a total nobody is the safest bet in sports.
    — Sam Walker, WSJ, 4 May 2018

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