How To Use Checker In A Sentence

He is likely the QMJHL's best bodychecker and has turned into a real dynamo from the blue line in. USATODAY.com - Undrafted college prospects could get NHL lockout look
There were checkerberry-pipe and licorice-pipe and sassafras-pipe, and -- how Wort's eyes did glisten and his mouth water as he imagined the different kinds there! The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process. 2009 February 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
A series of essays from various regular Americans on love, work, and life in the United States, including a housewife and supermarket checker.
And, boy, did the spellchecker go mad on these sentences.

If it resulted in the so-called checkerboard, that can't be optimal," Daniels said, adding that his preference is that the referendum be county by county, rather than township by township. Courierpress.com Stories
The double-sided checker-board is also useful for breadboarding with surface mounted components.
He wore his usual khaki shorts and a checkered red shirt while in the car.
These little people, quite recovered from their fatigue, had set about gathering checkerberries, and now came clambering to meet their play-fellows.
If drusen, the hallmark of AMD, are detected, your doctor may give you an Amsler grid, which looks like a checkerboard. Fading Of The Light
The table straddling the checkerboard floor and spiral carpet ties the differing patterns together.
Have the first rank open; let the second be checkerwise; and let firing against cavalry be the only firing to be executed in line. Battle Studies
That was the most logical thing to do since RJ had a bad temper and a checkered past.
In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
Further north you have service berries or juneberries in the wet woodlands; bearberries on the moors and heaths, checkerberries or wintergreen in the woods and moors, and cranberries in the boggy heaths, which has berries that remain on the plant throughout winter.
They stuck to their system with one forechecker and four guys back. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Los Angeles vs. Nashville
In some cases this instinct might be explained as reflecting the unworkability or inefficiency of a particular checkerboard solution.
a checkered business career
If the oligopolistic competition has power-law falloff and there is increased local competition among agents, then the model has a rich phase diagram with an antiferromagnetic checkerboard state, striped states and maze-like states with varying widths, and finally a paramagnetic state. Strange Science
My spell checker suggested this should be spelled "diabolic". Discourse.net: A Note for my 1L Torts Class
Last week: Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin tangled as they received the checkered flag with Bowyer ending up 12th after spinning to the inside of the track. Team notes: NASCAR stars return to roots at Darlington
The only problem is that a spell checker had rendered Prif Swyddog Cyllid as 'prig seadog cylix'. Archive 2006-12-01
The victory gave Edwards a sweep of the Cup and Busch races at Atlanta that weekend, and he is the only driver to pick up his first checkered flag in both series the same weekend.
And she told me, after she had looked it all over and said it wuz kinder thin and slazy, and checkered shawls had gone out of fashion, and the black looked some as if it would fade with washin ', and the white wuzn't over clear, and the colors wuzn't no ways becomin' to her complexion, and etcetery, etcetery. Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3
a checkerboard has 64 squares
After years of staff downsizing, eliminating editors and staff checkers from the payroll - publishers seem to be having a spate of personal fantasies making it to print as Truth. Truth AND consequences
Based on the traditional 64-square checkerboard, the game appears simple.
Games and such … backgammon is huge here, you can get hand carved wooden boards, they play it constantly and they will win; p, almost everyone can play chess also, as well as the Russian version of checkers that is not too much different from the American version. Uz Packing Advice (updated 05.11.03)
Josh: Actually, watching the path of his checker is like trying to figure out an M.C. Escher painting. The world’s worst video game box art, Part One
The trail then leads to intricately textured white sandstone formations, contoured with thin layers and crosshatched by cracks that create a checkerboard pattern.
It has no editors, no fact checkers and anyone can contribute an entry - or delete one.
Other manufacturers may make rifles with fancier stocks, brighter bluing, better checkering and polishing.
A very disruptive forechecker who plays with a lot of heart. USATODAY.com - Russians head class of forwards in upcoming draft
The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.
Edge enhancement is rarely present, and there is a notable lack of moiré rainbows given Harry's checkered suit and pinstriped tie.
They also recall Saint Lucia's checkered colonial past, reminding the visitor that many locals still speak a French patois, even though English is the island's official language.
She's used fact checkers, various sources and even called the US State Department way back in 2002 seeking a source for the quote.
To me, the scene looked like fun - what with the checkered tablecloths, faces of all ages, and the music and all.
The floor was a checkerboard of black and white lino tiles.
Red-and-white checkered tablecloths contrast with the dark wood in the cozy two-part dining room reminiscent of a ski chalet.
Even the floors and ceilings were different: the former was high and covered with stalactites, whereas the latter was no longer simply white marble but a checkerboard of black and white.
The most common game played by all ages is checkers.
Its surfaces are covered with a checkered, machine-loomed flannel, a subtle, polychromatic patchwork of nocturnal blue, heather and black that enlivens the sculpture's truncated planes and the quiet space it occupies.
A couple of them got to work, one or two asked to be released to talk to other teachers, and a few were playing checkers and chess quietly.
A good forechecker but could use some work on his defense. ... USATODAY.com - 2004 NHL Draft Capsules
So I got good at them all - bridge, checkers, pinochle, you name it.
I don't remember exactly how she responds or if her reply was run through spellchecker.
The facade is divided into a set of nine slightly staggered panels, framed in relief and decorated in a checkerboard missing-brick pattern.
The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and Kim
Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries. Flamsted quarries
Although not highly recommended, you can always wear a plaid pattern shirt with a checkered tie, so long as the patterns aren't identical in size.
Some of these packages include excellent typographic extras, like a spell checker or thesaurus.
The checkerboards of alternately horizontal and vertical stripes - lines that are also shapes - are not really gestural, as the paint is applied quite deliberately.
A checkered band of blue and silver (called 'fess') is placed across the center of the shield and this is taken from the Arms of Stewart to denote descent from that family.
Play a game together, like checkers or backgammon
They were closer now, Robert showing a checkered shirt under his open shell jacket. TISHOMINGO BLUES
Since studies have shown that spell checkers make good spellers worse, does that mean this new tool will give us less personality?
As you look up at it, the inside of the roof looks like a checkerboard whose squares have been battered and then flown apart.
My Model 70 Pre 64 Winchester in 270 is my favorite bolt action rifle. i put it in an accurate innovations stock that I hand rubbed 25 coats of African Express finish from Brownells and had Tim at classic checkering work his magic on the bastogne walnut. If You could have just one rifle...
She drags little Marga through Freedomland, the now-defunct Bronx theme park, in search of Chubby Checker. Erika Milvy: "Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger" Extended
We know that the flashing checkerboard is a very salient stimulus for just the visual processing areas of the brain," she says. Boing Boing: February 15, 2004 - February 21, 2004 Archives
I bought a deck of cards and a travel game of checkers.
My spell checker says "aspheric" isn't a word, but I'll leave it in as GE must know what it's talking about and has presumably checked that. Tech Digest
A checkered garter snake gave birth to three baby snakes in the ginger belt at the edge of the rain forest.
Heck, I didn't know "burbling" was a real word until I noticed my spell checker wasn't underlining it. Paul Dailing: Fish Burbling: How Crazy New Media Terms are Changing the Future of Everything
Men posing as water supply checkers called to a number of homes in the Tramore area and in one instance they managed to make their way into the home of one resident and while one distracted her the other stole the cash.
And here's the checkered flag from that hot-rod daddy ratfink from another world - your pal, hyper dave AKA the datajunkie. posted by hyperdave at 5:12 PM The Macabre Art Of Tom Sutton (or Repost Au Go Go Part 3)
In the kitchen I sat and looked down at the white and black checkerboard tile, the white walls and cupboards and counter and fixtures. SILENT JOE
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: and nets of checkerwork, and wreaths of chainwork, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. 1 Kings 7.
In the past, all Kimber rifles were stocked in claro walnut and checkered by hand, with quite traditional looks. The 5-Pound Deer Gun
What’s true for checkers is also becoming true for poker. Poker Bots on the Rise: A Guest Blog - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
This powerful editor will enable you to edit large files, format your text, convert your text to HTML, and even includes a spellchecker and thesaurus.
‘I used to checker every pair by hand, but I bought a CNC,’ laments the reluctant Luddite.
Bossard says there are an almost unlimited number of patterns that can be cut into the turf - rows, diamonds, checkerboards, stars, numbers.
In addition to that, it may be used in practical applications, such as interactive grammatical lookup and intelligent dictionaries, spell checkers, etc.
For some reason I could see only the spellchecker and the image upload buttons on the editing toolbar.
The piece refers to an Asian strategy game usually played with polished black and white stones on a checkered game board.
I remember playing Chinese checkers and eating candy corn when I used to stay with her as a kid.
By the time it was reproducing intensely colorful herringbones and checkerboards, the crew had abandoned its initial fear in favor of spontaneous bursts of applause. A Triumph of Souls
I'm going now, Jake," said Roxie, hesitating a little, and finally concluding not to mention the checkerberries, lest her father or brother should object to her going alone into the wilder part of the forest. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
Not everyone would condemn every checkerboard solution.
A man in his fifties, with a bulging chin, wearing a checkered flannel shirt, came out. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
I received a pen and quill to go along with a thick green diary, a small lute and some music sheets to play some tunes, a checkers / chess board with pieces, and a jar of lip-gloss.
The loud applause could not drown out the booming sound of the karts' engines on the race track as they awaited the checkered flag.
These squares are planted with vegetables of contrasting colours, which gives the impression of a multicoloured checker-board.
The wood on this commemorative is exceptionally well-figured walnut with both the fore end and grip area nicely checkered.
To be kinged, a checker piece must move to the opposite side of the board. Archive 2007-06-01
All of this resided in my checkered past, almost forgotten until last week.
One of the people in your report had a checkered past.
The doctor finishes his drink and gently sets the glass down on the coaster, staring at the little checkerboard pattern beneath it.
On top of their sweaters the students pulled on coloured checkered jerseys.
She paused for a moment, hating the silent checkerwork of moonlight and shadow in the room outside and sensing through her skin the shortness of time. The Silent Tower
Bossard says there are an almost unlimited number of patterns that can be cut into the turf - rows, diamonds, checkerboards, stars, numbers.
Unlike checkers, the key to poker is to predict whether other players are bluffing. Poker Bots on the Rise: A Guest Blog - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
My eyes followed the checkered patterns across the carpet.
As with the checkered nerite, some members of a population spend more time in the water than others.
Wal, I 'll say one thing for her; she draws the fire out o' Hepsy, an 'she 's 'bout the only livin' critter than can; but some nights when she 's ben inter our house a playin 'checkers or fox an' geese with the child'en, she 'd railly git Hepsy slicked down so that 't was kind o' comfortable bein 'with her. Oldtown Folks
Okay, so it appears I made a typo on ‘so’ and my spellchecker helpfully changed the word to ‘sortie,’ but you get the point.
The market for spellcheckers and monolingual dictionaries would be greatly reduced.
The floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with a checkerboard pattern.
A flat, dry area of land is first chosen, and a checkerwork pattern of spaced out, already burnt bricks laid down over an area of approximately 15 m by 12 m. Chapter 10
Anyone know of a good integrated virus checker for postfix like qmail has? UFies.org: Security Archives
You have people with checkered pasts and lots of problems.
The local citizens interested in various forms of athletic sports and quieter games of chess and checkers have discovered themselves to the editors.
I painted the white checkerboard cowls, shark's mouth, and the name Butch, My Baby.
The post-debate fact checkers will have a field day with it.
The facade of the third block of apartments on the garden is distinguished by a checkered pattern formed of black and light-gray panels that slide over the windows as sunshades.
PS: Firefox 2.0 has a spell checker and it insists that satan not be use in place of Satan. EP Flash: Act of Devil
But now, along with high drama, diners at Checkers can enjoy a lighter menu.
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: and nets of checkerwork, and wreaths of chainwork, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. 1 Kings 7.
He smiled innocently, pulling his shirt up and letting his checkered pants bag low under his hips.
Many full-formed adults come over all trembly when parted from the spellchecker on the PC.
Although not highly recommended, you can always wear a plaid pattern shirt with a checkered tie, so long as the patterns aren't identical in size.
A fopling poet though thou wert, dainty and perfumed, yet still a poet, sweet in a lady's bower, where all is fashioned as befits the place and time: a poet indeed! and, what is more, never wert thou turned from thy chosen path of duty by praise or purse -- although a poet and poor all the days of thy most checkered life. The Buccaneer A Tale
My spellchecker continues to highlight the word as a spelling mistake.
At Checkers, Mills is overseeing the addition of patio dining accessible by a new outside entrance.
His comeback story is remarkable, but his checkered injury history and "averageness" as a closer make this the one glaring liability on the Rays. MVN
The place was full of stuff, mainly books, puzzles, and hundreds of different boxed games; chess, backgammon, checkers, and ones I'd never seen before.
Blocker diluted the ferociousness of his sport and made the March date sound like a game of checkers. Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies
For anyone who has been unlucky enough to befall the horrors of my handwriting, firstly I say I’m sorry – but secondly – if I did that, I would have no idea what I have just written – much less the scrawl from a day ago. thank goodness for spellchecker as my typing is just as bad – but at least the letters are uniformly shaped. Don’t panic « Write Anything
Several lizard species that are adapted to the exposed, sun-baked landscape of West Texas are indicative of the succulent desert shrubland: the round-tailed horned lizard, the checkered whiptail, and the greater earless lizard. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
He has a checkered past as a park ranger, ferry naturalist, and Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakstan.
The wooden board had a checkered pattern of sixty-four black and white squares and a compartment on either side of the board.
This eruption of checkerboard shirts and big-buckle jeans can reach a point of critical mass, where the whole thing has to explode onto the streets, in a lairy mess of half learned rebel songs and broken glass.
He is clearing the cards, the chips, the checkered mat off the table, putting them neatly into a briefcase.
For example, it isn't in the dictionary and spell-checker for my own word processor, so every time I type "redd" on my computer it shows up underlined in red (an appropriate color, I suppose) as a misspelled word. Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont
This service ensures high email deliverability due to efficient anti-spam checkers.
It is certainly possible, for example, to use just two colors when setting square tiles in a checkerboard pattern.
He was a strange, tall, dark, osseous man who, owing to the brooding, melancholy character of his own disposition, had a checkered and a somewhat sad career behind him. The Titan
I spend time with our daughter, allowing her to beat me in several games of checkers.
One of the people in your report had a checkered past.
It has tables with checkerboards, cards and other table games as well as two large sofas.
The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth. Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
It is an open declaration to your opponent that you have no idea what you're doing, and that maybe checkers is your game.
Othello, a cross between checkers and tic-tac-toe, is a popular game.
The checker was a nice-looking young man who was talking to the bagger about his fantasies.
Janie, her name tag had read, worked as a checker at the A&P. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
The market for spellcheckers and monolingual dictionaries would be greatly reduced.
As those 7 little dwarfs (man, my spell-checker is going bonkers over "dwarfs") would say, it's off to work I go. I READ BANNED BOOKS!
And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
After supper I'll bring the checkerboard up and play you a few games.
Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal The Niven House has stucco exterior scored to resemble ashlar block and a marble, checkerboard-patterned porch, which is original to the home. Tuscany on the Hudson
Then _this_, "and he pointed at the maskalonge," broiled on a pointed stick, with a handful of checkerberries for dessert, and I think you and I will be about ready to begin work in earnest! Darkness and Dawn
Originally constructed with 348 rooms in its 12 stories, Checkers reopened with 188 rooms and a five-star restaurant in 1989.
The 917 also features a black synthetic stock and molded-in checkering. Rifle Roundup: 27 New Guns for 2006
Cover that buffet table with an antique patchwork quilt, checkered tablecloth or even canvas potato sacks.
It is common to see them playing cards, checkers, and chess with friends.
The instrument is more objective than human flavor checkers and could help standardize the catfish industry.
The raw eggs tasted good to the hungry girls, and the good corn-bread and spicy berries and tender checkerberry leaves, with cool water to drink, made them both feel refreshed and rested, and ready for the remaining distance to Chandler's River settlement. A Little Maid of Old Maine
Simple games of poker are certainly 'solvable' in the way that oh, say, checkers is solvable. Singularity Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Clone Checker is a powerful carve after find trade mark xerox copy images, MP3s and any other chronologize types. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
Red-and-white checkered tablecloths contrast with the dark wood in the cozy two-part dining room reminiscent of a ski chalet.
The events include basketball, chess, checkers, table tennis, roller-skating and karate.
The object of the game is to “bear off” all of your checkers from the backgammon board before your opponent. Skills as Network Goods
The soft-edge checkerboards from the early 1950s turned sharper over the course of the decade, and the 1960s paintings displayed a new interest in color relationships.
It doesn't matter how many badge checkers and gun-toting security personnel you've hired.
He has a checkered past as a park ranger, ferry naturalist, and Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakstan.
As transmitters are switched on and new areas receive BBC digital radio broadcasts the postcode checker on the website will also be updated.
The formal approach is met by a checkerboard garden of green boxwood and gray artemisia.
Sam doesn't play checkers with the old boys on the porch.
After finishing breakfast she washed the plates in the water basin, along with the bowl that Checkers had licked clean, and returned them to their proper places.
My solution is keep it simple, two firewalls, two operating systems and two virus checkers.
Then, suddenly, she remembered that Rebecca was at home ill, and that she had entirely forgotten her, and the young checkerberry leaves she had intended picking for her sister. A Little Maid of Old Maine
(The spell-checker which continues to complain about “woad” has no trouble with “dithionite”.) Archive 2009-01-01
I really believe the checkerberries must have started, it is so springy," she thought; "I've a mind to go down and look in what Jake calls 'Bear-berry Pasture,' though I told him they were not bear-berries, but real checkerberries. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
The facade of the third block of apartments on the garden is distinguished by a checkered pattern formed of black and light-gray panels that slide over the windows as sunshades.
I used the word shill in reference to the checkered career of S. Think Progress » Bush Administration Has Pressured Half Of Gov’t Scientists To Downplay Global Warming
Oh I forgot to tell you guys and gals, he always kicks my *** in checkers the on line one. Heroes or Villains?
I tried to explain the spellchecker to her, but after a few seconds I realized I was wasting my breath.
I wish my parents would get a hobby, like croquet or checkers.
Sleek in design, these knives feature synthetic handles with molded-in checkering and a choice of two blade styles, a modified spearpoint and a tanto, both made of 154 CM stainless steel.
Based on the traditional 64-square checkerboard, the game appears simple.
(I'm a terrible speller and my spell checker is woefully inadequate!) Bob McDonnell- Not Running a 1989 Campaign
When it comes to checkers, my son - in - law generally has the whip hand.
The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth. Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
Litchfield - About one-fifth of the 117 butterfly species native to the state - including the silvery checkerspot, northern metalmark and frosted elfin - are listed as rare and endangered by the Department of Environmental Protection, a decline that has hastened in the past three years. USATODAY.com
The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cirrocumulus web, glinting golden and magenta in the glancing sunlight.
It has tables with checkerboards, cards and other table games as well as two large sofas.
The classic use for black and white, of course, is in tiles, most often in a checkerboard pattern.
‘Oh sure, throw my checkered past back in my face,’ Clark jokes, and glances over to her.
Down the middle is a double row of checkered squares, red and white, with a black horizontal footprint just below the center.
A checkered garter snake gave birth to three baby snakes in the ginger belt at the edge of the rain forest.
They looked for the story in the windings of the checkerberry-vine and blue-eyed periwinkle, on the lichens curiously growing on the boles of aged trees; but for all these they had no dictionary. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
I can have two whole days every week to crawl on the checkers without disturbance.
One of the job of fact checkers is to contact the concerned parties to get their perspective on the events. Bradley and Beckwith on Baylor
Where it had been, there was only the strange checkerboard pattern of the wall.
By mixing two complementary patterns, it's possible to create distinctive designs that emulate rich neutral basket weaves or vibrant checkered patterns.
As a fact checker, I'm responsible for verifying every last name, number, and nuance of every article I see.
The checkered past of food irradiation began nearly 50 years ago in an attempt to send can-packed bacon to troops in Vietnam.
Later, at home, he'll ask me to explain how to play checkers, how to blow enormous bubble gum bubbles, and how to fly a kite.
Beads of water cling to its screen, necklaces unstrung, locked by the screen's grid into something like a checkerboard, if checkerboards wore jewelry.
This is a hardware module that instantiates the design under test, together with data generators and checkers.
I had quite a bit more sympathy for Brendan, the hapless teenaged supermarket checker, than did the author of the book.
Many years ago, Marlin offered all sorts of grades with fancy wood and checkering, and engraving and inlaying. A Mighty Mini Marlin
Right now, he's a sophomore with a checkered past.
Here we gathered all the berries before named, and besides them checkerberries, dangleberries, and grapes.
Would you fill in the separate list for the red checkered shirt andthe express service box.
Most versions of this story did use the proper term "ijtihad,"but in a sad spell-checker turn of events, one online version showed up as "jihad. Reuters: Top News
At a recent trip to the supermarket the checker accidentally failed to me charge for some items.
Biffle, a close friend of McMurray's, was disappointed in finishing third because he was the leader when the caution came out after the first green-white-checkered attempt. McMurray hangs on to win pothole-marred Daytona 500

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