Example sentences for: blackboard

How can you use “blackboard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the post-World War II years, urban strife and suburban anomie gave rise to school violence of the sorts broadly rendered by Hollywood in the 1955 films Rebel Without a Cause and Blackboard Jungle . The nation waxed hysterical over "juvenile delinquency," as the vogue phrase had it--alienated adolescents unaccountably sullen in the bountiful Eisenhower years.

  • While it is true that films such as Blackboard Jungle , The Wild One , East of Eden , and Rebel Without a Cause tapped into the baby boom audience, the teen demographic was identified at Warner Bros. in the 1930s with the popular films starring the Dead End Kids.

  • The next morning I marched into the rival classroom and confidently wrote my new sentence on the blackboard, only to be instantly one-upped by young Monrad, who stepped forward and inscribed:

  • One day in 1970, three hard-working associate professors of finance scribbled down a few equations on a blackboard, and eureka!

  • They would come to class in the morning to find runic messages he had written on the blackboard at night: "Mao Tse-Tung's Bar Mitzvah was 13 years, 13 months, and 13 days after Brezhnev's circumcision."


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