Examples of checkerboard in a Sentence

The fields formed a checkerboard of light and dark squares.

Recent Examples on the Web In the entrance hall, Drake and Anderson preserved the marble checkerboard floor, each tile numbered and meticulously reinstalled. — ELLE Decor, 19 Sep. 2022 And don’t forget the accessories, including a darling checkerboard dad hat with hearts in the squares! — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2022 The pair shared a cute video of their fresh braids to Kaavia's Instagram with Kaavia posing in a cute rainbow tee and checkerboard shorts and Union glamming it up in satin pajamas. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 8 Aug. 2022 Lake Okeechobee is diked and polluted, and the swamps and saw-grass marshes that once received its overflowing waters are a checkerboard of sugar cane fields. — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022 In the centuries since, the forests and marshes have mostly been replaced by a checkerboard of soybeans and corn.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 The lobby was dressed in her signature black and white checkerboard marble floors, bright presidential-blue walls and rhododendron-print curtains. — Joy Callaway, WSJ, 2 June 2022 The restaurant on Vermont features cozy booths and checkerboard floors in the familiar cheerful orange and rounded beige diner plateware. — Frank Shyongcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022 The siting of hundreds of miles of transmission lines, power poles and electric substations often involve a checkerboard of private, state and federal land that sometimes include environmentally sensitive areas. — Susan Montoya Bryan, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2022 See More

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