How to Use cross-check in a Sentence
cross-check
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Benn then leaned over and cross-checked a sliding Stone in the face/neck area at 1:53 of the first period.
— Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023 -
Incredibly, nobody along the way cross-checked her blood type with that of the donor.
— Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Benn was ejected in the early moments of Game 3 after a cross-check and subsequent hit to Vegas captain Mark Stone’s head.
— Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 30 May 2023 -
Tkachuk, who was sent to the penalty box earlier in the game for a late cross-check to Garnet Hathaway’s ribs, shoved Ullmark in a netfront battle, starting the fracas.
— Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023 -
Hughes, who has never had a fighting major, got two-minutes for roughing and Aho got four minutes, the extra two because of a cross-check.
— Tom Canavan, ajc, 8 May 2023 -
The city clerk’s office would conduct a series of annual cross-checks to ensure that a business currently owns property in the city.
— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 July 2023 -
Health care providers should also cross-check for cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure, among other measurements.
— Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 5 July 2023 -
Benn was suspended after his cross-check and stick to the neck of Stone, who fell to the ice without his stick after the captains collided less than two minutes into Game 3 on Tuesday night.
— Stephen Hawkins, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023 -
And federal loan applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags about sketchy borrowers.
— Aaron Kessler, oregonlive, 12 June 2023 -
Entries are added and verified through regular cross-checks to make the whole project trustworthy, a process incentivized with crypto token rewards.
— Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024 -
In the second period, Bergeron absorbed a blatant cross-check from Lane Pederson, ruled a five-minute major, then reduced to a two-minute minor following a video review.
— Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023 -
By cross-checking the cognitive scores of people who have or lack the exercise-promoting snippets against those of people with the gene variants related to cognition, scientists can discern the extent to which exercise contributes to thinking skills.
— Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023 -
By cross-checking the filers' addresses with political attitudes in their home states, the researchers determined that listing the man first on a return was a strong indication that a couple held fairly conservative social and political beliefs.
— Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 10 July 2023 -
Their testimony was cross-checked, including by comparing multiple accounts about specific prisons and comparing accounts about different prisons to identify common practices.
— Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024 -
Benn then leaned over and cross-checked a sliding Stone in the face/neck area at 1:53 of the first period.
— Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023 -
Incredibly, nobody along the way cross-checked her blood type with that of the donor.
— Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Benn was ejected in the early moments of Game 3 after a cross-check and subsequent hit to Vegas captain Mark Stone’s head.
— Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 30 May 2023 -
Tkachuk, who was sent to the penalty box earlier in the game for a late cross-check to Garnet Hathaway’s ribs, shoved Ullmark in a netfront battle, starting the fracas.
— Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023 -
Hughes, who has never had a fighting major, got two-minutes for roughing and Aho got four minutes, the extra two because of a cross-check.
— Tom Canavan, ajc, 8 May 2023 -
The city clerk’s office would conduct a series of annual cross-checks to ensure that a business currently owns property in the city.
— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 July 2023 -
Health care providers should also cross-check for cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure, among other measurements.
— Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 5 July 2023 -
Benn was suspended after his cross-check and stick to the neck of Stone, who fell to the ice without his stick after the captains collided less than two minutes into Game 3 on Tuesday night.
— Stephen Hawkins, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023 -
And federal loan applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags about sketchy borrowers.
— Aaron Kessler, oregonlive, 12 June 2023 -
Entries are added and verified through regular cross-checks to make the whole project trustworthy, a process incentivized with crypto token rewards.
— Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024 -
In the second period, Bergeron absorbed a blatant cross-check from Lane Pederson, ruled a five-minute major, then reduced to a two-minute minor following a video review.
— Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023 -
By cross-checking the cognitive scores of people who have or lack the exercise-promoting snippets against those of people with the gene variants related to cognition, scientists can discern the extent to which exercise contributes to thinking skills.
— Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023 -
By cross-checking the filers' addresses with political attitudes in their home states, the researchers determined that listing the man first on a return was a strong indication that a couple held fairly conservative social and political beliefs.
— Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 10 July 2023 -
Their testimony was cross-checked, including by comparing multiple accounts about specific prisons and comparing accounts about different prisons to identify common practices.
— Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
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