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Definition of checkerboard
1 : a board used in various games (such as checkers) with usually 64 squares in 2 alternating colors
2 : something that has a pattern or arrangement like a checkerboard
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Examples of checkerboard in a Sentence
The fields formed a checkerboard of light and dark squares.
Recent Examples of checkerboard from the Web
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His winner, which beat 205 other entries, was a deep-dish checkerboard peanut butter pie with crunchy bits of pretzel, inspired in part by a Take5 candy bar, one of his favorites.
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Inside, the cake displays its trademark pink-and-yellow checkerboard pattern.
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The resulting image looks like a checkerboard with illuminated squares, but this basic low-resolution image is just first step, Hajimiri said.
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Several chambers are still decorated with black and white checkerboards and red ochre spirals and honey-combs, the only prehistoric paintings found on the island.
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Rocking chairs, checkerboards, and country kitsch are absent in this house.
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My personal favorite: the Battenberg Cake, a pink-and-yellow checkerboard creation that may or may not have been created to commemorate the marriage of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg in the 1880s.
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Octave, despite the success of his music, is currently navigating a checkerboard of legal problems.
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In Singapore’s quandary of where to put its people, the people themselves — the living as well as the dead — can seem like pieces on a checkerboard.
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First Known Use of checkerboard
1775
CHECKERBOARD Defined for English Language Learners
checkerboard
playDefinition of checkerboard for English Language Learners
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: a board that is marked with squares of two different colors (such as white and black) and that is used in various games (such as checkers)
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: something that has a pattern or arrangement of squares that looks like a checkerboard
CHECKERBOARD Defined for Kids
checkerboard
playDefinition of checkerboard for Students
: a board marked with 64 squares in two colors and used for games (as checkers)
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