How to Use checkers in a Sentence

checkers

noun
  • Want to see whether the fact-checkers got the study right?
    Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The half time show for the 56th Super Bowl game is chess, not checkers to Dr. Dre.
    Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The public would act as the fact checkers of a politician’s lies.
    New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • The rules are the same as the board game classic: put four checkers of your color in a row.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Grab a drink or a bar bite and play pool, checkers and other games.
    Katie Toussaint, charlotteobserver, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Our team of fact-checkers was on the case during the Mueller hearing.
    NBC News, 25 July 2019
  • Ring of Honor, new uniforms, Ruler of the Jungle, (etc.) are box checkers for the change.
    The Enquirer, 13 May 2022
  • What’s new: Gone are the days of human ticket checkers.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Gingham Get ready to see a looooooooot of checkers this summer.
    Seventeen, 8 June 2017
  • Any video marked false by one of Facebook’s fact-checkers will not be removed from the site.
    Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Fact-checkers disputed the claim and noted that Trump did hold the Bible right-side up.
    Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2020
  • After that first game of checkers, Maya and Jonathan continued to talk in letters and emails and on the phone.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 7 July 2021
  • Fact-checkers are too few, too slow and sometimes too biased to solve it alone.
    Tom Siegel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Biden's math, too, has been challenged by fact-checkers.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Fact checkers have found that Trump’s claims regarding the CDC and testing to be false.
    Washington Post, 4 May 2021
  • Gone are the days of human ticket checkers scanning your pass in line.
    Megan Michelson, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The claim became so widespread that fact-checkers worked to debunk it.
    New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • No — the posts are baseless, and other fact-checkers have debunked them.
    Daniel Funke, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The ad’s claim has been dubbed a falsehood by Washington Post fact-checkers.
    Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Fact-checkers have expanded the use of video to reach people not inclined to read fact checks.
    Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • People are also playing chess and checkers on the side.
    Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Fact-checkers had to pore over the 1,000-page bill to resolve the dispute, and even then their verdict took a lot of explaining.
    Sarah Green Carmichael, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2019
  • This one will have a unique fun factor in the form of a game room with adult-size versions of classics like checkers and Connect Four.
    Eric Rosen, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2021
  • These claims are as wild as any Mr. Trump made—even if the fact checkers have gone conveniently deaf.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • And in the end … the moves deployed by President Gersson Rosas and his staff seemed more like a nice, wholesome game of checkers.
    Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • One lived in Whitehall, and was a miner who loved playing checkers.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Their induction into the Hall of Fame puts them in the same league as Barbie, dominoes and checkers.
    Giulia Heyward and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Each box contained bouncy balls, crayons, a jump rope, light-up necklaces, a kite, a boomerang, checkers, card games and much more.
    Dallas News, 19 June 2020
  • All social-media companies took the lesson and began hiring new fact-checkers and censors out of the progressive media.
    The Editors, National Review, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Facebook took similar steps, preemptively limiting the spread of the story while sending it to third-party fact-checkers.
    Cat Zakrzewski, Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 2022

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