How to Use checkbox in a Sentence

checkbox

noun
  • Click the $15 instant coupon checkbox to bring the price down to $40.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 27 Nov. 2020
  • In the next window, select the checkbox next to Export to a file and click Next.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Head to the Listen tab and check the Listen to this device checkbox.
    Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Choose the Sleep, restart, or shut down checkbox and select Restart in the pop-up menu, pick the day and time and click Apply.
    Simon Hill, Wired, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Make sure that the checkbox next to Find My is selected.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022
  • If there is a coupon available, the prompt will appear with a checkbox under the price of each item.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Click the checkbox at the top left corner of the search results to select every message on the page.
    Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
  • Signing up for the program is done simply by checking a checkbox on the signup page.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 2 June 2021
  • Nobody had a checkbox, nobody had a board to go back and record everything, and bring back to today.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • Simply mark the checkbox, and during checkout, the dollar or percent amount will be taken off the total price of the item.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In one demonstration, the tabletop system projects a checkbox that can be filled in with your finger.
    Mark Aramo, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Now, before each don a red and blue jersey in 2021, the only checkbox remaining for them is to win the final match of the season —the state championship game.
    David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The new ordering system ditches the checkbox-style method of old for a Zoom-like interaction.
    Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • This should be a wake-up call for every agency across the country, do not rest until wellness is truly a priority, not a checkbox.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That would probably take the form of a checkbox, much like the ones that already ask whether a taxpayer has foreign bank accounts or bought or sold cryptocurrency.
    Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The checkbox to identify my race could be just another way to stigmatize my beautiful brown skin.
    Elizabeth A. Brown, STAT, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But PimEyes enforces that rule with a single checkbox that anyone can easily click to circumvent.
    Washington Post, 14 May 2021
  • The aforementioned love for it by the hardcore nerds feels like nothing more than another mark on a spec sheet checkbox that only the good-sighted can appreciate.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • But in the context of vehicles, family is a checkbox that has to be recognized in the car-buying experience.
    Marc Grasso, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2022
  • That last group includes a manual barrel and pincushion slider, along with a checkbox for Defringe.
    PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The pregnancy checkbox included on death certificates in the US asks whether the person was pregnant or recently pregnant but does not address whether the pregnancy contributed to the death.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Officer promotions packets will still include a checkbox for an officer's race, but that could disappear in the future, Sgt.
    Fox News, 25 June 2020
  • Notably, California’s pregnancy checkbox remains to this day slightly out of sync with CDC guidelines for death certificates.
    Lyman R. Stone, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
  • But if that single checkbox classifies us all with this skin, what then—despite America’s history of prejudice against all racially Black people—separates us at those points of entry?
    Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But scholars and leaders who have spent time thinking about these questions generally agree that Jewishness is an expansive, intersectional identity that can’t quite be captured by a checkbox on a form.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • However, this policy is an opt-in option listed as an additional checkbox at the bottom of the UIL’s pre-participation physical evaluation.
    Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This should not be lip service or a checkbox exercise, but continual, ongoing learning, encouraged by dedicated learning time.
    Jakub Lamik, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024

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