How to Use checkoff in a Sentence

checkoff

1 of 2 noun

• This isn’t the first time the tax checkoff for at-risk children has come under scrutiny.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• Dairy farmers must pay 15 cents per hundred pounds of milk sold into the checkoff program.
  — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2019
• Essentially, they are told to bring a clipboard with a checkoff list to each campus.
  — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2018
• The checkoffs do not affect how much money a taxpayer owes.
  — Lisa Lerer, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2017
• Though the report did not specify whether a checklist was completed, Winn said such a checkoff should have prompted the pilot to hold off from flying.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
• Far from being an overrun bucket-list checkoff site, Alcatraz in the late 1960s was a deserted, decaying shell.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Mayor Mark Farrell will probably remain in office for at least five weeks beyond the June 5 mayoral election, leaving him with plenty of time for the one final checkoff of his short term — the foreign junket.
  — Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2018
• Making a team one dimensional is usually at the top of the checkoff list for a defensive coordinator.
  — Charles Hollis, al, 11 Dec. 2020
• Colorado’s tax checkoff program should be applauded, not disparaged.
  — Jon Pushkin, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
• Jon Pushkin is a spokesperson for Checkoff Colorado, a collaborative statewide awareness campaign designed to educate taxpayers about the state’s tax checkoff program.
  — Jon Pushkin, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
• Read more: The organization gets resources from fund-raising benefits and voluntary checkoffs on paychecks for everybody from above-the-title stars to best boy, key grip and other jobs nobody outside the movie industry understands.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2017
• The law establishing the tax-checkoff fund requires annual financial reports to the mayor and D.C. Council, a measure to make sure taxpayers’ voluntary contributions are properly spent.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• Your story about Colorado’s tax checkoff program painted a misleading picture of an extremely successful program that provides a critical source of donations to a diverse range of nonprofits serving communities across the state.
  — Jon Pushkin, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017

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check off

2 of 2 verb

• But the shirt served its purpose and checked off the necessary boxes.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 28 Apr. 2018
• That’s one item that Gervais, 61, never got to check off.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 17 May 2018
• The variable stock prices are a reflection of the shifting odds bulls’ wish list will get fully checked off.
  — Derek Saul, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• Heather and Peter just checked off the fifth bus on their list while riding the 90-Owl.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• But Ragnow checks off many of the boxes the Lions wanted to fill.
  — Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2018
• Throughout the pre-draft process, Mayfield has checked off all the boxes and answered his critics.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Anthony Davis, if not checked off the boards, can truly embarrass and destroy a foe.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
• Today, the jewelry company's making that last item all too easy to check off, as the brand hands out both — for free — to anyone who passes by.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 3 May 2018
• Touring has become a much bigger moneymaker in an era where many artists complain of paltry royalty checks off of hundreds of thousands of streams.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
• But consider the search checked off your to-do list already, because the best makeup artists in the bridal biz rounded up the foundations to buy before wedding season is in full swing, ahead.
  — refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
• In the gentleman’s game, a guy who doesn’t check off all of the boxes — smiling, backslapping, glad handing, hanging out with the boys — is considered boorish and bad for the game.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2018
• The Rangers stopped the skid with a 6-5 extra-inning win against the Astros Saturday afternoon and checked off a slew of boxes in the process.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 15 Apr. 2018
• In Hankins, Steele checked off the biggest item on his offseason personnel to-do list in strengthening Xavier's frontcourt.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The blue-green-white space checks off several ecosystem boxes, including marine, coastal forest, montane, subalpine and alpine tundra environments.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• The scene with the wife is a dead end for him, just an item to check off the list.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 May 2021
• Nobody wants more items to check off the to-clean list.
  — Maya Pottiger, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• One part of the planning that was easy to check off their to-do list?
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• There's just one final box to check off — the last one.
  — Mike Mazzeo, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Choose the sizing that’s best for you and check off one of your go-to ’fits for the summer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• This is the stress-free way to shop and an easy way to check off your shopping list.
  — Valerie Li, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
• Stuck on where to find sandals that check off all of the boxes?
  — Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2022
• Mora hopes to check off, one that hasn’t been reached since 2015.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2022
• Here are 25 things to try to have checked off your list by Monday night.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The state is a birder’s paradise with 566 species to check off your list.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2020
• And once the easy projects are done, check off other crucial to-dos.
  — Steve Carney, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• But fans — and the team — want to check off that last box and wonder when that’ll happen.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2022
• And sometimes, the best ones are just fun to check off your travel list.
  — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
• Just add a mattress and check off this item off your list for the next five years at least.
  — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
• More calories burned for you, and a check off of your bucket list.
  — Nicol Natale, Woman's Day, 8 May 2020
• Criss says the new album was a check off his bucket list.
  — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024