How to Use checkpoint in a Sentence

checkpoint

noun

• Our car was stopped at a police checkpoint before we were permitted to cross the border.
• Along one gravel road leading here, a group of kids have set up their own pretend checkpoint for cars driving by.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
• Storing them in a separate small bag or pouch and removing them at the security checkpoint can help streamline the process.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
• The grueling mini-final involves a series of checkpoints.
  — Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
• On Tuesday, the military checkpoint leading into the city was destroyed in a massive explosion.
  — Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• Most passengers made a beeline for the security checkpoint inside the terminal.
  — David Koenig, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
• Communication is an end-to-end process, so a solid checkpoint is ensuring that those a few levels below you are getting the same message that your leaders are.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The public cannot dine or shop at CVG for those establishments in the concourses past the security checkpoint.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2024
• Here’s where and when Where are the Kendall-area checkpoints?
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• But our fifth checkpoint is at Broughton Beach, in the far north of the city.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
• When a gun is found at a checkpoint, the TSA does not seize it.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2022
• The Jaba checkpoint was even closer, just down the road, near enough to smell the smoke.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• Just a few months ago, reaching the glitzy checkpoint was a pipe dream.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• Getting aid through the checkpoints and into Gaza is the easy part.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
• By the first week of November, the checkpoints stood empty.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• There will be room to dry gear this year with only a few teams at each checkpoint.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Oleh’s company went first and dug in at the first Russian checkpoint in the city.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• The tests are designed to serve as checkpoints for student progress.
  — Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2024
• The main race route is a 4.6-mile loop along the Milwaukee River, with four checkpoints along the way.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
• Police at the first checkpoint were thorough and even asked me to take a sip of my water.
  — Álvaro Valiño, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• Those federal fines are the TSA's tool to punish those who bring a gun to a checkpoint.
  — CBS News, 20 Feb. 2023
• Those federal fines are the TSA’s tool to punish those who bring a gun to a checkpoint.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
• There's checkpoints, police stops and checks you, and curfew lifts at 5:00 in the morning.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2023
• From the city of Nablus in the north to Hebron in the south, young men marched on Israeli checkpoints, throwing stones and burning tires in the streets.
  — Dalia Hatuqa, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Who was voted out of 'The Summit'? On Day 2, the group reached the first of nine checkpoints camp, where they were treated to food and wine.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
• The Ukrainian police guard the last checkpoint on the edge of the town of Sloviansk, hunkered down in the woods just a few miles from the front line.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2022
• Ukraine and Poland agreed to open a checkpoint on Monday for a handful of trucks leaving Ukraine.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• The traffic is far more than the border checkpoint can handle.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• There’s a third checkpoint between Furnace Creek and Dante’s View.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The family would first have to get through a Taliban checkpoint, the message warned.
  — Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024