How To Use Checkers In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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)
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It has no editors, no fact checkers and anyone can contribute an entry - or delete one.
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She's used fact checkers, various sources and even called the US State Department way back in 2002 seeking a source for the quote.
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The most common game played by all ages is checkers.
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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.
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So I got good at them all - bridge, checkers, pinochle, you name it.
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Play a game together, like checkers or backgammon
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Since studies have shown that spell checkers make good spellers worse, does that mean this new tool will give us less personality?
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I bought a deck of cards and a travel game of checkers.
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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.
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What’s true for checkers is also becoming true for poker.
Poker Bots on the Rise: A Guest Blog - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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In addition to that, it may be used in practical applications, such as interactive grammatical lookup and intelligent dictionaries, spell checkers, etc.
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I remember playing Chinese checkers and eating candy corn when I used to stay with her as a kid.
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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.
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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
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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
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The market for spellcheckers and monolingual dictionaries would be greatly reduced.
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The local citizens interested in various forms of athletic sports and quieter games of chess and checkers have discovered themselves to the editors.
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The post-debate fact checkers will have a field day with it.
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But now, along with high drama, diners at Checkers can enjoy a lighter menu.
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At Checkers, Mills is overseeing the addition of patio dining accessible by a new outside entrance.
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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.
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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
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This service ensures high email deliverability due to efficient anti-spam checkers.
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I spend time with our daughter, allowing her to beat me in several games of checkers.
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It is an open declaration to your opponent that you have no idea what you're doing, and that maybe checkers is your game.
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Othello, a cross between checkers and tic-tac-toe, is a popular game.
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The market for spellcheckers and monolingual dictionaries would be greatly reduced.
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Originally constructed with 348 rooms in its 12 stories, Checkers reopened with 188 rooms and a five-star restaurant in 1989.
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It is common to see them playing cards, checkers, and chess with friends.
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The instrument is more objective than human flavor checkers and could help standardize the catfish industry.
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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
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The events include basketball, chess, checkers, table tennis, roller-skating and karate.
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The object of the game is to “bear off” all of your checkers from the backgammon board before your opponent.
Skills as Network Goods
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It doesn't matter how many badge checkers and gun-toting security personnel you've hired.
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Sam doesn't play checkers with the old boys on the porch.
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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.
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My solution is keep it simple, two firewalls, two operating systems and two virus checkers.
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Oh I forgot to tell you guys and gals, he always kicks my *** in checkers the on line one.
Heroes or Villains?
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I wish my parents would get a hobby, like croquet or checkers.
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When it comes to checkers, my son - in - law generally has the whip hand.
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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
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I can have two whole days every week to crawl on the checkers without disturbance.
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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
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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.
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This is a hardware module that instantiates the design under test, together with data generators and checkers.
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The combination of frequency and spellchecker was much more powerful than the spellcheckers alone.
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Office networkers are protected by network firewalls and virus checkers which are absent in the home.
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A wise editor could have remedied this, and the text is also littered with the sort of errors that come from reliance on electronic spellcheckers.
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The problem is that there are no editors and no fact checkers, so plenty of what you read on blogs is just plain untrue.
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All the hands went into the living room after dinner to play cards, chess, checkers, or other popular games.
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He says that as the level of hacker sophistication goes up, the level of difficulty will be like the difference between checkers and chess.
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Computer spell checkers are useful but far from infallible.
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Why do we need checkerspot butterflies, delta smelt, damselflies, or Florida's endangered perforate reindeer lichen?
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: The Crisis Nobody's Talking About
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Academic bloggers find that their community of readers often act as fact-checkers or engage the blogger in instantaneous debate over specific points before the book reaches the concretized state of print.
If It Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Katar and Quatar shot to the top of Twitter trends, infuriating spell checkers everywhere who wondered where Qatar was.
Quatar, Katar, Qatar; Murder in Celebration, Fla.; and pennies and panache in Congo
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At Checkers, Mills is overseeing the addition of patio dining accessible by a new outside entrance.
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Once this happens, virus checkers will need to evolve with the viruses.
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American foreign policy is chess, not checkers. sene
U.S., Venezuela reinstate top diplomats
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At Checkers, Mills is overseeing the addition of patio dining accessible by a new outside entrance.
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If he likes to play the old-fashioned way, T. Anthony's game set holds cards, dice, poker chips, checkers, and chess.
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The program rejected the word practicalities and suggested "proctolitis" in its place, thereby neatly illustrating my contention that spelling checkers, as reliable aids to cleaning up one's copy, are a pain in the ass.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4
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The game of the Hindoos, called pachisi, is played upon a cross-shaped board or cloth; it is a combination of checkers and draughts, with the throwing of dice, the dice determining the number of moves; when the Spaniards entered Mexico they found the Aztecs playing a game called patolli, identical with the Hindoo pachisi, on a similar cross-shaped board.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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These tight restrictions on allowable moves, players say, make checkers in many respects more difficult than chess.
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Seeing things like this just gets me wanting to play chess, lose, and resort to checkers (chess' dumber yet more outgoing brother).
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In the end if you are unable to take any of your checkers to the home board then you are said to be gammoned which means that your loss is double the stake amount.
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We would hone our skills at checkers, card games, and the telling of ghost stories until it was time to drop, tiredly, but happily into bed, eager to greet the next day to come.
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EQ1 in its original form and early expansions) what checkers is to chess.
Matthew Yglesias » Gold Farming
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Currently there are only four games sanctioned by the International Mind Sports Association: bridge, draughts also known as checkers, Go and chess.
Poker Seeks Status as Brainiac Pursuit
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When forced to dump the puck, forecheckers must battle through blockers to reach the defenseman along the boards behind the net.
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A visitor to an early 20th century camp described the lumberjacks sitting around the box stove in their barrack-like shanty enjoying a ‘free-for-all’ - playing checkers, poker or cooncan, reading, writing letters and talking.
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However, if the loser has not borne off any of his checkers, he is gammoned and loses twice the value of the doubling cube.
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The two forecheckers are called torpedoes, the other forwards are called halfbacks and the lone defenseman is a rover.
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Players starting with less than 15 checkers in play may still be gammoned or backgammoned.
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In fact, the earliest form of the familiar checkers can be traced to the Egyptians as early as 600 B.C. Other popular games, such as backgammon and chess, have also provided years of fun and excitement for families and friends.
October Board and Card Game Patents
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Also included are checkers and backgammon boards and pieces.
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Because the circumduct and compassing coulers, meeting together in the selfe same smoothe and cleane stones, did yeeld a reflection, no part being faultie, eyther of the square checkers or scutuls and Trigons.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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Stock up on a few super-cheap magnetic games (i.e., tic-tac-toe, checkers, etc.) at the local dollar store or at gift shops along the way.
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While most of the company prefer the cottabus, two, who profess to be experts, call for a gaming board and soon are deep in the "game of towns" -- very like to latter-day "checkers," played with a board divided into numerous squares.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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The chance that the checkers will vandalize is minimal and can easily be changed back by another “trusted” user. —
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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In Berlin, we saw ticket checkers enter subway trains where the on-the-spot fine is $30 and we started buying tickets again.
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This grizzly situation is the fault of computer spellcheckers.
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Even though the soldiers, security guards, policemen, body-searchers, passport-checkers, and MPs are totally wonderful and totally nice and totally doing a fabulous job and I just love them to pieces, their presence here in the Green Zone does give it a touch of "flava" reminiscent of East Berlin circa 1955.
Make War not Love: Sex & the City (of Baghdad)
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After a Harris' checkerspot emerges from its chrysalis, it feeds on nectar from a wide variety of flowers.
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Chess, checkers, Candyland, or Chutes and Ladders are popular game choices for this age group.
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For hours they have been playing all sorts of odd and interesting games, but for now it was Bougsbie, which is a similar board game to checkers.
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Slate magazine does not seem to use fact-checkers, but these elemental facts easily can be found in any encyclopedia of American history, or by a ten-second
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Beware of relying solely on the built in spell-checkers of modern word processing software.
The right rites of writing « Write Anything
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My target would always be unsuspecting price checkers.
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The players' checkers move in opposite directions on a board with 24 spaces.
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Microsoft says it's added "nearly 100" titles, courtesy of its Microsoft Games division, but many searches I tried ( "sudoku," "checkers," "Risk") didn't pan out.
Bing adds music, videos, games
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Your letter mentions that checkers who undercharge are made to pay the undercharge and are also suspended from work.
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They also played board games like checkers, chess, and dominoes.
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The amusements was crokinole and parchesi and checkers and the like of that.
The Depot Master
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It is probably more than a coincidence that I first met Thornton before our scheduled interview in an antique store where she was engrossed in an almost visible reverie among the stereoscopic slides, Chinese checkers and cha-cha albums.
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Tash bemusedly watched the meanderings of her increasingly inebriated castmates as Richard and Hugo attempted to create a way to play checkers with beer bottle tops.
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The amusements was crokinole and parchesi and checkers and the like of that.
The Depot Master
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Not only it will save their time, it will also save money spent on hiring the bag-checkers.
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Othello, a cross between checkers and tic-tac-toe, is a popular game.
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The two watched the parody of a checkers game in silence for a few moments, relaxing in the mood of the evening.
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Philadelphia, however, remained reluctant to change on the fly because the Flyers are successful forecheckers.
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On the open side, the railing is wide like a bench, and many senior citizens were sitting on it and playing cards, Chinese checkers, and Chinese chess (shougi).
April 13th, 2007
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Other activities were also found helpful, including playing chess, checkers, playing a musical instrument, and reading.
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The two forecheckers are called torpedoes, the other forwards are called halfbacks and the lone defenseman is a rover.
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She returned with her Chinese checkers board and sack of marbles and then proceeded to set the game up between them.
