How to Use drawing board in a Sentence

drawing board

noun
  • Something like this should have been on the drawing board weeks ago.
    — Bill Rodriguez and Jim Galvan, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • But those projects are nowhere close to getting off the drawing board.
    — NBC News, 8 June 2021
  • The girls head straight to the drawing board and mock up a comeback plan.
    — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Lenovo went back to the drawing board, and the third time might be the charm.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 11 Jan. 2022
  • It’s been on the city drawing board for years but has yet to go any further.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 27 May 2021
  • That, in turn, sent the group back to the drawing board for this year’s outing.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The loss of the deal now sends Broadcom back to the drawing board.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • So the park’s designers went back to the drawing board again.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
  • Town officials there said the projects were still on the drawing board.
    — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • The Browns will have to go back to the drawing board on third down after this game.
    — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2021
  • After trying all three, stick with the one that worked best for you (or go back to drawing board).
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Take a little time off, get back to drawing board and make another run at it next year.
    — Maureen Mullen, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Then the drawing board met the boardroom, and the haggling began.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Our elaborate plans to shoot for the stars may end up sending us back to the drawing board today.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The rapid onslaught of new variants has sent some firms back to the drawing board while spurring others to call it quits.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Not even Tesla has anything on the drawing board that can compete.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2022
  • New drilling permits were not issued while the county returned to the drawing board.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2021
  • But there aren’t many new mills on the drawing board for North America.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 17 May 2021
  • This past offseason, Turnbull went back to the drawing board.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2020
  • Some of your lofty goals might take a trip back to the drawing board until after the New Year.
    — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • As far as Feder is concerned, however, the city needs to go back to the drawing board.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2021
  • The third tower, at least for the foreseeable future, will remain on the drawing board.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But the public site near the island, promised shortly after the tragedy, remains on the drawing board.
    — Mark Lewis, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • So Biden told them to go back to the drawing board, gather more facts and give us a report in 90 days.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 4 June 2021
  • When the first version of AllHere failed, Smith went back to the drawing board.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Now, Ohio lawmakers will be sent back to the drawing board to craft a new map within 30 days.
    — Jessie Balmert, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2022
  • In the last year or so, my favorite striped tee was discontinued and I was forced to go back to the drawing board.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Officials went back to the drawing board and plan to open the bidding process July 6.
    — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 3 July 2021
  • The company will go back to the drawing board to find a solution, Randall said.
    — Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2020
  • At first, Martin dreamed up an idea and then dispatched it to Bliss to realize at the drawing board.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020

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