How to Use on the drawing board in a Sentence

on the drawing board

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• And more projects are on the drawing board.
  — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
• Something like this should have been on the drawing board weeks ago.
  — Bill Rodriguez and Jim Galvan, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
• All aircraft look good on the drawing board, and many may even work well under ideal conditions.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
• Talk to the business, often and early, starting when a product is still on the drawing board.
  — Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• But nothing now on the drawing board suggests that technology alone can get us out of this predicament.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2010
• The project, which has a staggering price tag topping $40 billion, has been stuck on the drawing board for years.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
• These lines have been on the drawing board for years, but utilities in the neighboring regions have not moved them forward.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2024
• But the project remains on the drawing board, and the county hasn’t released the bidding paperwork.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• Without these, even the most advanced engineering will remain stuck on the drawing board.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
• The three huge developments on the drawing board would gobble up almost 40 acres of land in the downtown area.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
• Crossrail, as the project used to be known, has been on the drawing board of London planners since the nineteen-seventies.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
• Daring Modernist museums have sprouted around the park in the past several years, with more on the drawing board.
  — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
• But, as of this week, the work remains on the drawing board, and Alvarado is no longer even operating under that name.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024
• The idea of bringing a space shuttle to the Science Center has been on the drawing board for a generation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• Consequently, some key actions were completed while others remained on the drawing board.
  — Doug Criscitello, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• Biden soon faced a roadblock when a central piece of his plan to push utilities off fossil fuels, known as the clean electricity standard, was left on the drawing board.
  — Chris Megerian, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• The half-dozen tall buildings that are on the drawing board wouldn’t stand out in downtown Oakland or northeast San Francisco.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
• But new natural gas plants won’t come online for another five years due to supply issues, new nuclear power is a decade away and no new coal plants are on the drawing board.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
• Back in 2017, the Gables Riverwalk tower was just a plan on the drawing board — and a controversial one at that.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2024
• Target is stepping up its campus store development this year, but there’s no word yet on whether multiple campuses in Texas are on the drawing board.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2021
• With full-scale rezoning still on the drawing board, Mayor Adams and the city have been moving ahead with significant companion steps.
  — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
• The 415-megwatt Perennial WindChaser gas plant has been on the drawing board for years.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2020
• If that’s true for this or any other optical accelerator on the drawing board, many neural network calculations would no doubt be done using light rather than just electrons.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2019
• While no such flights to the red planet are even on the drawing board at this point, NASA views the moon as a critical first step toward reaching that long-range goal.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2022
• There are also plans on the drawing board to reconfigure this upper nautical loft into a private owner’s suite, with a wall to separate the helm and a private hot tub on the rear terrace.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
• In fact, within weeks of taking the job, Franzen informally proposed building a tollway instead of a freeway that had been on the drawing board for 20 years.
  — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
• American Airlines has agreed to buy up to 20 supersonic jets and put down a non-refundable deposit on the planes that are still on the drawing board and years away from flying.
  — David Koenig, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022
• The brotherhood among Athena’s knights was also left on the drawing board, presumably in expectation of being able to tackle it in a sequel that likely won’t happen.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• While some redevelopment plans are still on the drawing board, the projects put Bobby firmly in the driver’s seat as Asok, 68, gradually steps back.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Although the Russian space program repeatedly talks about replacing the Soyuz with a newer line of rockets, such boosters remain firmly on the drawing board.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2024