How to Use fingerboard in a Sentence

fingerboard

noun
  • First off, just like skateboard wheels, fingerboard wheels can wear down with long-term use.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The slap of the double bass strings on the fingerboard can be heard in their tiniest detail.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The neck is also mahogany, which is topped by an ebony fingerboard with 20 frets.
    — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024
  • These brand stickers are smaller to fit on the miniature fingerboard decks.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The fingerboards also come with snap-on shoes for better control.
    — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • The ebony fingerboard has more brightness and snap than the rosewood used on most Fender electrics.
    — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Each pack has a fingerboard from a different brand and contains four extra wheels and a tool for swapping them out.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Lanzilotti also slowly moved her bow from high up on the viola’s fingerboard to down near its bridge.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The players use only open strings, meaning that their left hands, which change the notes on the fingerboard, are rendered useless.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2021
  • Ebony is the only wood the company uses for its fretboards, the part of the guitar also known as fingerboards.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
  • But his dexterity, the quickness with which his fingers danced along the fingerboard, had returned.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The shredding, fingerboard-tapping, dive-bombs and epic power-ballad solos.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Another unique feature is the restaurant’s fingerboard skatepark.
    — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The semi-hollowbody electric guitar is crafted from blonde wood and features an unbound fingerboard.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Jared also supplied ebony from his father’s studio for the fingerboard, bridge and binding, and Richard’s chisels for the tuner buttons.
    — Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
  • There are even competitive Tech Deck events where skaters will use their fingerboards on miniature ramps and half-pipes to complete tricks and earn points.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • It was scored for contrabass, and contrasted vigorous open string strums with ethereal harmonics played all the way below the fingerboard.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • From a distance, a gamba looks a bit like a cello, but with sloping, rather than rounded, shoulders and a wider fingerboard under six or seven strings (versus the cello’s four).
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The violin solo runs up and down the ebony fingerboard, conjuring the feeling of feet slipping on thin ice, bodies crashing into snowy embankments.
    — Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The humid weather is no friend to violins, which may have explained a few of the sour notes near the top of the fingerboard, but there was little symbiosis between Bell and the orchestra.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Even popular skateboards brands like Element and Plan B have teamed up with Tech Deck to create fingerboards.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Seventeen frets split up a total of 102 buttons which correspond to a traditional six-string guitar fingerboard.
    — Christopher Null, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2010
  • Other ice-like sounds included dryly plucking the strings above the left hand; sliding fingers up and down the fingerboard, creating an airy sound; and bowing the wood, bridges and tailpieces of their instruments.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • This one with a solid brass fingerboard scalloped to facilitate the sort of string bending guitar-guru John McLaughlin was doing at the time.
    — Matt Wake, AL.com, 20 June 2017
  • For Hawk, the beginner-friendly ethos of the fingerboard sets stems from the inclusivity skateboarding symbolizes in general.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 July 2022
  • Concertmaster Rubén Rengel relished his spotlight moment with a growling solo that covered almost the entire fingerboard.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The players' fingers never touched the sound fingerboards of their instruments, producing pure harmonic that seemed to set the entire gallery vibrating in some mysteriously shamanistic way.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • The Isbell Custom Tele’s boasts a ‘59-style body, chocolate sunburst finish, cream double-binding, maple neck and 21-fret rosewood fingerboard.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Santa Cruz, Blind, Element and Plan B are all examples of high-profile skateboard brands that have fingerboards with Tech Deck.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The best Tech Deck is the Tech Deck Party Bundle, which includes four separate packs, each with a different fingerboard brand such as Santa Cruz, Powell Peralta or Antihero.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026

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