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Example sentences for "blackboards"

Lexicographically close words:
blackberry; blackberrying; blackbird; blackbirds; blackboard; blackcap; blackcaps; blackcock; blacke; blacked
  1. Tradition tells how, having no text-books, he used the blackboards for his philological work.

  2. In time, every good school will have its garden, as it now has charts and blackboards and books.

  3. The true school garden is a laboratory plat; time is coming when such a laboratory will be as much a part of a good school equipment as blackboards and charts and books now are.

  4. Small blackboards should be conveniently placed in the laboratory so that the instructor may use them in explaining any points that may arise.

  5. The quiz room should be well provided with blackboards which may be used to great advantage in the writing of equations and the solution of chemical problems just as in a class in mathematics.

  6. No'm," said Jacko, politely, and he brushed the chalk marks off the blackboards harder than ever.

  7. So we went, and there we set for ha'f an hour, while the rest of the gang and the blackboards and the paper slips and the telephones and Big Mike and his chair was bein' carted off to the wagon.

  8. Blackboards of proper size are very rare in the schools of Norway.

  9. When one of these buttons is pressed a flap swings down on the great wall blackboards and a white number flashes into sight.

  10. Around none of the posts surged the pandemonium of real activity and the two great blackboards that break the marble whiteness of the walls at the north and south twinkled no feverish signals from brokerage offices to floor operators.

  11. The blackboards at north and south burst into a hysterical flashing of white numbers, and a word went out which set the cylinders of printing presses whirling.

  12. We have also been sending out a lot of globes and blackboards to schools.

  13. Our extensive blackboards have something to do with this, allowing so many pupils to be working at the board that a teacher cannot attend to them all.

  14. The European plan of having small blackboards is in many respects better than ours, since pupils cannot so easily waste time.

  15. Then, to satisfy myself, I went into the great school-room at the time mentioned by Stopford and stood behind the blackboards in the cupboard.

  16. The door of the cupboard on Richmond's right, where the blackboards were kept, opened violently and out leapt no less a person than Mr. Browne himself!

  17. To be sure, there were on the blackboards exercises and outlines, of lessons in language, history, mathematics, geography and the like.

  18. CAME A WOMAN In my suite in the Textile Building, just off the big main room with its blackboards and tickers, I had a small office in which I spent a good deal of time during Stock Exchange hours.

  19. I went into the main room, where the tickers and blackboards were.

  20. Tall blackboards stood behind us, waiting to receive the words we should reform; but the best of it was to find myself sitting next Miss Appleby, with Willows quite an agreeable distance away.

  21. Twenty pieces of chalk were rattling on the blackboards like a platoon of busy telegraphic instruments.

  22. And flags," supplemented Patrick Brennan, Monitor of Blackboards and Leader of the Line.

  23. They are reading physiology aloud, in the midst of the gaunt room, with very little in the way of blackboards or materials.

  24. The offices of the company which were raided were elaborately furnished, and there was a complete assortment of tickers, blackboards and like paraphernalia.

  25. For the instant that the "quotations" cannot be written upon the blackboards the betting must cease.

  26. She used the blackboards to advantage, and very carefully examined and criticised the work placed there by the pupils.

  27. She used the blackboards to advantage, and thoroughly inspected and criticised all writings that she had required to be put upon the boards.

  28. Make much use of blackboards and concrete material.

  29. Are maps ever drawn, roughly, on the blackboards by either teacher or pupils?

  30. Upon entering a schoolroom the teacher finds the blackboards bare and dull.

  31. Everywhere outside agencies there are great blackboards on which demands for farm labourers at five dollars a day and other workers are chalked.

  32. Incessantly, small flaps are falling on these blackboards revealing numbers.

  33. He asked a number of eager questions, and the strange silent dance of numbers on the big blackboards intrigued him greatly.

  34. Already one or two bookmakers are shouting from their stands, and some of them have chalked up on blackboards the odds they are willing to give in the big race.

  35. They stood on their stands beside blackboards full of horses' names and mystical figures, but they did not yell at you hoarsely, bullyingly, as bookmakers ought to do.

  36. Tea was over, and the trestles and boards, whereon had been spread better things than had been provided for the unfortunate youngsters, had been taken outside to keep the desks and blackboards company.

  37. The schoolroom had been cleared for dancing, the maps rolled and tied, the desks and blackboards stacked against the wall outside.

  38. Dick was a putty-faced, black-haired cub, who scrubbed blackboards and chewed gum in a Board of Trade man's office.

  39. I used to hear more or less about what was being done on the Board of Trade from Dick Pierson, who had been promoted from scrubbing blackboards to a little clerkship in the same office, which operated on the Board.

  40. The walls were hidden by masses of crowfoot and pine, brought from the mountain; the blackboards had vanished behind festoons of red flags and bunting.

  41. He cannot see the blackboards and charts; printed books are indistinct or are seen only with much effort, everything is blurred.

  42. Shall blackboards be of slate, composition board, or glass?

  43. Blackboards were cleaned and decorated with an elaborate maple leaf stencil in green and brown, and a heroic battle cry of "O Canada, we stand on guard for thee" executed in flowing letters, in the middle.

  44. The paint was worn from the floor, the ceiling was smoked and dirty, the desks were rickety and uneven--the blackboards gray.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackboards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.