checkerboard

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check·er·board | \ ˈche-kər-ˌbȯrd

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

Examples of checkerboard in a Sentence

The fields formed a checkerboard of light and dark squares.

Recent Examples on the Web Don Angie’s checkerboard-fringed cabins, designed by GRT Architects, are in the running. — New York Times, 29 June 2021 In the first photo, Hadid glows in the sun, wearing a green checkerboard bikini top. — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 11 June 2021 Samuel’s program searched the computer’s memory to find examples of checkerboard positions and selected the moves that were previously successful. — Gil Press, Forbes, 28 May 2021 And in lieu of a linen cover-up, Bieber reaches for a graphic checkerboard tee that bursts with color. — Hugo Comte, Vogue, 26 May 2021 When Vans co-founder Paul Van Doren died last week at age 90, one particular shoe — a slip-on sneaker with a waffle-bottom sole and a black-and-white-checkerboard canvas upper — took center stage. — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021 That setup made the grandstands look somewhatlike a checkerboard. — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2021 For Shadow and Bone, that meant changing a black-and-white checkerboard marble floor with vinyl squares to create a darker room and, in another room, hiding lighting inside columns to provide illumination without hanging a lighting rig overhead. — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 2 May 2021 In the entry, for example, what appears to be a stone checkerboard is painted on parquet. — Cynthia Frank, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2021

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