单词	checkerboard
释义	checkerboard noun check·​er·​board ˈche-kər-ˌbȯrd  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 Example Sentences The fields formed a checkerboard of light and dark squares. Recent Examples on the Web 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Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022 In the centuries since, the forests and marshes have mostly been replaced by a checkerboard of soybeans and corn.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 Some areas are a checkerboard of public and private land, presenting right-of-way issues. Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022 See More Word History First Known Use 1775, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Kids Definition checkerboard noun check·​er·​board ˈche-kər-ˌbȯrd  : a board marked with 64 squares in two colors and used for games (as checkers)
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