How to Use checklist in a Sentence

checklist

noun
  • I still have one thing left to do on my checklist.
  • Before takeoff the pilot went down his checklist of safety precautions.
  • The good news is that your weekly cleaning checklist doesn't have to be anything drastic.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
  • New students also received a five-point mental health checklist at orientation.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2021
  • In the six decades that human beings have been flying in space, climbing a mountain has never been on the astronaut training must-do checklist.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Autumn brings the charm of colorful, eye-catching leaves, but raking them up can be another exhausting chore on your fall garden checklist.
    Sandi Schwartz, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Key features include the ability to set multiple reminders, create checklists and share task lists for collaboration.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But when our leaders reduce them to single categories on a checklist, the complexities that accompany them are diminished.
    Suha Musa, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In Tokyo, many athletes on the U.S. team have added another routine to their pregame checklist — virtual or in-person check-ins with an on-call mental skills coach.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • For other great tips on saving electricity, check out energy.gov and Energy Star, and use this checklist to help track your energy-saving actions.
    Karen Wytmans, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Last year, for example, many districts required employees and students to walk through a self-screen process, with some using apps with a checklist of questions that needed to be completed daily or weekly.
    Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The site offers a lengthy checklist for faculty members interested in decolonizing their syllabi.
    Jack Wolfsohn, National Review, 9 Aug. 2021
  • From January through March, the property owners would need to return a checklist of structural and electrical inspections to the county or city.
    Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Luxe takes Plus's inspections up a notch, with a 300-point amenities checklist and an additional layer of design inspection.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The National Hurricane Center has a thorough checklist and supply kit suggestions on its website.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 26 Aug. 2021
  • One of the first items on DCFS’ checklist: a drug test.
    Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
  • So here's a checklist for what schools might need to do to keep up.
    Matt Craig, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • But that work was fused with the work of making the show and not just an item on a checklist.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The room reads like a checklist of poster cars, among them a Porsche 959 and Carrera GT.
    Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2022
  • For the tamal-obsessed, here is a quick and up-to-date checklist of the best local tamales in town, from the Valley to Watts.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Rely on a self-care checklist to use in times of crisis.
    Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The surgeon was in the corner going through his checklist.
    WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Kia always does a good job while keeping the consumer at the top of its checklist.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Grab a scarf, take a sip of your first PSL, and scroll through our ultimate fall checklist.
    Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The length of that checklist is daunting and certainly will frame what the team does this winter.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • There are no shortcuts, no one-size-fits-all checklist.
    Michael Bush, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • One of the simplest ways to do this is to create a digital checklist.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
  • For everyone else, a win like this marks a huge concern off the checklist.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Prior to the home birth, your midwife will usually give you a checklist of things to do and things to buy.
    Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Bird strike records in Alaska reads like a birder’s checklist, from ravens to owls to pipits to killdeer.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022

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