How to Use sandwich board in a Sentence

sandwich board

noun
  • What to write on the slate sandwich board that sits out front?
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 30 June 2018
  • The old sandwich boards and billboards are not what kids are looking at.
    — Jeannette Hinkle, azcentral, 26 Aug. 2019
  • There’s no branding aside from a sandwich board on the sidewalk.
    — Nellie Bowles, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
  • Some have sandwich board signs on the sidewalk advertising pills.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • A-frame chalkboards or sandwich boards are much larger two-sided chalkboards meant for outdoor or event use.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Just down the path, a sandwich board marked the stop for the Frogtown Brewery, which hosts weekend food trucks.
    — Melinda Fulmer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Stop signs were mounted on folding sandwich board signs in the middle of intersections.
    — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Customers might intend to stop in to purchase some in-house dry-aged beef to grill for later, but the sandwich board will tempt them with a snack for now.
    — Alex Darus, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
  • On one recent day, a man pushed a shopping cart full of plastic bags past the hotel’s sandwich board advertising rooms and suites.
    — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 10 July 2023
  • The first runs were a learning experience, and one lesson is that A-frame or sandwich board bus stop signs tend to get blown down by the wind.
    — Author: Jim Paulin, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Just look for the little sandwich board leading to a concrete path leading to a glass door leading to a fun addition to the neighborhood.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The sauce became a common condiment across American sandwich boards and restaurant menus in the ‘80s with chefs putting their own spin on the spread.
    — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • Nearby, a seafood market employee repainted a sandwich board that will soon advertise specials.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • The Smashing Machine is in many more theaters than that, but Safdie is still donning the sandwich board and hanging out in lobbies.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The inspection made no mention of the hotel’s tourist offerings, which the hotel advertises on a sandwich board sign just outside the front door.
    — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 10 July 2023
  • The restaurant’s craft sandwich boards and wooden plates were made by woodshop students at La Jolla High School.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Other paintings were mounted on sandwich boards that individuals took turns wearing, one painting affixed to each side of the easel-like structure.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • She was born here and began her civic engagement at age 5, wearing a sandwich board to help her mother raise money for the Oakland Symphony.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Scooters might get in someone’s way occasionally but not any more than all the other less useful obstacles on the sidewalk, from garbage bags to old mattresses to sandwich boards.
    — Ted Trautman, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
  • There were six parabolic mics, contraptions resembling satellite dishes that operators strap on like sandwich boards and schlep around the sidelines to soak up sounds.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Facebook had plastered its name all over the door, and propped a little Facebook-blue sandwich board on the road encouraging punters to stop in for a free cup of coffee and a chat about their privacy settings.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The council agreed and allowed Bike the Dunes to put its sandwich board sign in the town’s median near the visitor center entrance when the rental business is operating.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • Our reactions to these foods are often instructive about our own prejudices on how to eat and are so much more of a joy when shared than, say, sold off the sandwich board of a third-wave cafe under a different name and for five times the price.
    — Chantal Braganza, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Peter Gallacher is paying pal Shaun Clark to walk up and down a main road wearing a sandwich board promoting his 10 per cent discount off burgers.
    — Fox News, 4 May 2018
  • Beyond the dapper clothes, his portable shoeshine station also reflects a certain classic charm, with a wooden sandwich board that points to a vintage shoeshine chair next to a cart topped with horsehair brushes and high-end shoe polishes and waxes.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The cafe reopened for on-site, outdoor dining Father’s Day weekend, all the while requiring guests to wear masks indoors — both displaying the policy via sandwich board out front and making disposable masks available to guests at the door.
    — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The encounters prompted Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to post temporary sandwich board-style signs at the Crosier Mountain trailhead warning of mountain lion activity.
    — Outside, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Pepino has several local ties, with La Jolla surfer and ceramicist Joe Skoby creating a sculptural light installation and La Jolla High School woodshop students making craft sandwich boards and wooden plates for the restaurant.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • When his first film, 2009’s low-budget Daddy Longlegs, was playing at a single theater in New York, Safdie stood by the entrance wearing a sandwich board, one that loudly proclaimed THIS MOVIE EXISTS!
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025

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