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.
• 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
• They were stopped at a rebel checkpoint and forced to get out, Ms. al-Ajouria said.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
• They were held at a Russian checkpoint for an hour and a half, while the girl sat in the back seat.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2022
• 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
• David Combs, 63, was one of the first residents to make it through the checkpoint Thursday.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
• 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
• After that comes a slate of the Lightning, Panthers and Maple Leafs, which will be a good checkpoint to set up the second half.
  — Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
• Residents can drive to the checkpoint on Walker Road at the south entrance to Lynx Lake.
  — P. Kim Bui, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• The family would first have to get through a Taliban checkpoint, the message warned.
  — Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
• The three of them got the buckets inside their car and then slowly and deliberately inched their way down the road to the first checkpoint.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
• My press pass gets me past the first checkpoint, manned by California’s National Guard.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Feb 2025