How to Use checkerboard in a Sentence

checkerboard

noun

• The fields formed a checkerboard of light and dark squares.
• Think of your bed as a checkerboard, and plant only in the red squares.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2017
• And even in the kitchen, there are wood ceilings, and that checkerboard floor.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
• This was the case in the recent proof about checkerboard-like patterns on a grid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2019
• The SUVs are white, with the lower part of the doors stamped with two rows of dark blue and gray checkerboard.
  — chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The ceramic-tiled floor a sort of fifties blue-and-beige checkerboard.
  — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• From the air, the county looks like a bland checkerboard of green and brown, highlighted by the Salton Sea.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2019
• This time the kings of the checkerboard came from behind to beat the Japanese on penalties.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• The flooring in question: black and white checkerboard tiles.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 25 Mar. 2021
• At the state level, there is a checkerboard of gun laws that align with the partisan tilt of each state.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• Take it all in—the crisp-chalked diamond, the ruddy arc of infield, the bright checkerboard of the outfield.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
• The kitchen island is lined with blue tile, and the kitchen floors are an asymmetric checkerboard.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
• The checkerboard of houses was more than a century ahead of its time.
  — Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2021
• With a checkerboard, two sets of pieces, and an understanding of the rules, anyone can play the game.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 June 2024
• The Croats have not worn their white-and-red checkerboard shirts since their opener against Nigeria.
  — Ronald Blum, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
• Touching the trash can, the dark puddle of a thick garment stretches out across the checkerboard tiles like a bearskin.
  — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• The flooring is a whimsical checkerboard tile in blue and cream.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• That means that voters will face a checkerboard of options.
  — Cody Weddle, miamiherald, 12 Oct. 2017
• At the end of every day, Kate stood by herself in the center of the carpet, a checkerboard of loud colors.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• The white and gray blocks could have been arranged like a checkerboard, but that would have been heavy-handed and boring.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2020
• End grain is made by using the ends of the planks, creating a checkerboard effect.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2024
• In the first photo, Hadid glows in the sun, wearing a green checkerboard bikini top.
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 11 June 2021
• In the centuries since, the forests and marshes have mostly been replaced by a checkerboard of soybeans and corn.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• Match yours to the overall style of your room of choice, and tie in other checkerboard elements with a rug or posters.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
• One is red and black checkerboard, and across the way from it is one with popsicle sticks, a la the park benches elsewhere in TSL.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 July 2018
• He was last known to be wearing a white shirt, checkerboard pants and Air Jordan 12 sneakers.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2020
• Whale sharks are known for their broad and flat heads and distinctive body markings of light checkerboard stripes.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• Her checkerboard nails showed she was fully committed to the look.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• The dress included one panel of fabric that included a black and black checkerboard print that fell across the center of her body.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
• The clothes are scattered in four heaps of different sizes on the yellow-and-gray checkerboard of tiles that occupies almost the entire photo.
  — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024