How to Use whiteboard in a Sentence

whiteboard

noun
  • Those few feet to the whiteboard took Smith past the point of no return.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • There also can’t be kids pushed right up against the whiteboard at the front of the room.
    Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • And the exam-room whiteboard that is checked, erased and checked again.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 June 2023
  • The reel switched to a scene of a robot drawing a line on a whiteboard.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Now came the stage where Ammon drew a map of the United States on the whiteboard.
    James Pogue, Outside Online, 14 May 2018
  • For the next coach at Lawrence North, that whiteboard — with the message — might make a nice gift.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Chris Herring’s name has been on the whiteboard over and over again.
    jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The voice stoplight on the whiteboard, which tracks the noise level in the room, was lifeless.
    Kevin Reynolds, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2020
  • All eyes turned to Wesley, who stood beside a whiteboard at the front of the room.
    Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
  • And just like on a real whiteboard, there can be a residue in our minds.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The back wall doubles as a whiteboard, still smeared with the grime of bygone notes.
    WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Ideas are tossed out and inked on a whiteboard with a dry-erase marker.
    Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Kendrick Castillo was the first to rush one of the shooters, slamming him again the whiteboard.
    Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Bad ideas when drawn on the whiteboard might not be so bad in real life.
    Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • And so the thought of a whiteboard at home turned his watery eyes into a stream of tears.
    Emily giambalvo, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • Thompson even took charge in the huddle, helping draw up one of the plays on the whiteboard.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Jones said that Drake wrote down each of their demands on a whiteboard.
    Bracey Harris, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The nicknames are scrawled on a whiteboard in the trailer office.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Murphy added that her plan for the fall is to buy a whiteboard to hang in the corner of the family room.
    Matt Villano and Illustrations By Max Pepper, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Danilov was in charge of mapping the workflows—first on a whiteboard and then in software.
    Tom Davenport, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • For the last month or so, Hayes, Stephens and sophomore setter Ellen Floyd have held down the top three spots on the whiteboard.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Have team members add ideas one at a time to the template, whiteboard, or sticky notes.
    Mark Cruth, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Set up a brainstorming session with the whole team there and bring out the whiteboard.
    Vanessa Dreifuss, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • On a whiteboard is a Diadema scorecard, a list of all the cohorts raised in the lab.
    Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The large whiteboard on an office wall was built for 22 names of those who had perished.
    New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • There is a full-service bar and eatery and even a large whiteboard to track the winning roosters.
    David Ovalle, miamiherald, 12 June 2018
  • Adams walked up to the whiteboard, grabbed the magnet representing Nixon, and made the call.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2021
  • Or go about 1:30 p.m. after the lunch run — some items on the whiteboard menu will be sold out, but what’s left will still be good.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2024
  • Go back to the whiteboard and focus on the tangible benefits of this change.
    Luca Maraschi, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • As his whiteboard goes up, 16 books open, and the courtyard reverberates with recitations.
    Adil Amin Akhoon, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2024

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