How to Use placard in a Sentence

placard

noun
  • The placard on the door says that the church was built in the late 1600s.
  • Sargsyan used the placard to park at red curbs on Rodeo Drive.
    Matthew Ormsethstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • One placard was placed next to a black pair of running shoes in the lot.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Sargsyan thought the placard would get him out of a minor jam.
    Jason Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • And no walking scorers with the placard that lists the golfer and their score to par?
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2021
  • The Mecca Region tweeted a video of the man with his face and the placard blurred.
    Hadas Gold and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The tank, a replica, has a placard that appears to be pages from a book.
    Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Conor grabbed the placard near his napkin and aimed his phone at it.
    Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Video from the scene showed the car had a handicap placard.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2021
  • Many of the placards sit at one of the points forming from the fountain, which sits on a shape resembling the Star of David.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Throughout the church were hanging placards of King's quotes.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The information was placed on a placard for all to read.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 29 June 2021
  • Rogers points to a placard outside his office door counting down the days to Oct. 30.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Byrne even got a vehicle placard to place in the bike’s basket.
    Victoria Hunt, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
  • The car is a drag racer with zero emissions, said a placard next to the driver’s door.
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
  • This is sometimes printed on a placard in the engine bay.
    Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The then-single Clubine was stationed in the top row, just a few feet from Meghan Markle, who held placard No. 24.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
  • There's a placard on nearby Eighth Street that mentions that this was a suffrage site.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The small placards can be easy to miss, at least according to several tourists in the area on Friday.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • At least her sister is too young to be entrusted with a placard.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • That means air fresheners, parking placards and, yes, even those dice are fair game to hang.
    CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Some people can stand and hold a placard, protest sign, for way longer than other people.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 12 Nov. 2020
  • These being writers, the placards and chants were a little more clever than usual.
    Vulture, 5 May 2023
  • Like the placard in the photo of Laub’s mother, the mask, a proxy for the President, feels out of place in this otherwise wholesome scene.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
  • McCarthy, in the speaker’s office, with no placard yet.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In contrast, a green placard means a restaurant passed the inspection.
    Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Then show them the disabled parking placard from your doctor.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 4 June 2023
  • There is no placard for Yousafzai’s former colleagues, or for the names read out each week at his Sacramento mosque.
    Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
  • All true, according to the information placard next to the work.
    Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Against a hot orange sky, the placard depicts the bent figures of workers picking from rows of lettuce.
    Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023

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