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  • noun Plural form of blackboard.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blackboard.

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Examples

  • All the horses attached to the blackboards were the picked ones of the

    Dorothy on a Ranch Evelyn Raymond 1876

  • Their claims of discrimination are backed up and explained by the United Federation of Teachers UFT president Michael Mulgrew who explains: In too many cases, there are smart boards, freshly painted walls and small class sizes in the charter school while in the public school there are broken blackboards, crumbling facilities and overcrowded classrooms.

    Michael Meyers: Doing the Bidding of the "Slave Masters" Michael Meyers 2011

  • Someone created a blog that posts photos of blackboards featured in pornos, writes down the contents and tries to make sense of them NSFW-ish: there's no nudity but some very skimpy outfits and inappropriate touching.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Barney Frank To Tim Geithner: Ever Hear Of Priceline, Dude? Eliot Nelson 2011

  • The rooms have desks with attached chairs, notebooks, textbooks, crayons, pencils, blackboards, etc. -- perfect images of how school was when we were kids.

    Aparna Vashisht: Starting a Parent Revolution Aparna Vashisht 2011

  • We particularly like the kitchen, with the blackboards as cupboard doors and we find it is an inspiring idea.

    Beautiful Lodge in The Middle of Nature by Logg Architects 2009

  • Their claims of discrimination are backed up and explained by the United Federation of Teachers UFT president Michael Mulgrew who explains: In too many cases, there are smart boards, freshly painted walls and small class sizes in the charter school while in the public school there are broken blackboards, crumbling facilities and overcrowded classrooms.

    Michael Meyers: Doing the Bidding of the "Slave Masters" Michael Meyers 2011

  • Initially, many villagers were concerned that blackboards don't really belong in a mosque, and kept their girls and boys away.

    Emboldened Taliban Try to Sell Softer Image Yaroslav Trofimov 2012

  • In a converted boatyard shed (all pine, beams, blackboards and bags of flour) you get to elbow strangers at long, communal tables furnished with big dishes of butter and pitchers of water (white mugs dangle from hooks overhead) and eat whatever's available at the time.

    West Dorset's top 10 budget eats 2011

  • To often in science fiction, we're presented with a theorist's blackboards full of equations, which are then reduced to practice without much trouble at all.

    MIND MELD: What Are The Most Realistic (and the Most Ridiculous) Uses of Science in SciFi Film and TV? 2009

  • In the pictures that follow, you will see a lot of examples of blackboards being used as walls or even as furniture.

    Beautiful Room : Chandelier Creative 2010

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