How to Use checkbook in a Sentence

checkbook

noun
  • The first method of record-keeping is the checkbook method.
    Karlton Dennis, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • A checkbook that had been inside the car was found on the street.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • When the crowd took their seats for dinner, the checkbooks came out.
    Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 13 May 2015
  • The checkbook has come out again and again, year after year.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Then came two playoff wins, and out came the checkbook.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2022
  • But how many of them can – and do – balance a checkbook?
    cleveland, 13 June 2021
  • Enlarge / Time to bust out the checkbook again, GPU lovers.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Did his goatee bring that checkbook back from the ’90s?
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
  • One serving is about the size of a checkbook for thin filets, or about the size of your palm for thicker cuts.
    Bianca Arney, baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018
  • Then grab your binoculars and checkbook and hit the road.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2020
  • But that’s not the case this year, as studios and streamers packed their checkbooks.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Police found on the ground in the driveway, where the car had been parked, the woman’s wallet, scarf and checkbook.
    cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Cash, a purse, a wallet, a checkbook, and credit cards were stolen.
    Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • How to get a crowd of the city's most polished breaking out checkbooks and busting a move?
    Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 15 May 2017
  • The victim said her checkbook, cash and cellphone were missing from the purse.
    Tyler Langan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2018
  • All of this will take foreign investors, and not enough of them have reached for their checkbooks yet.
    David Segal, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2017
  • How many patients take the time, as Politzer has, to protest errors that don’t hit their own checkbook?
    Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Kitchen cabinets hung open, clothes were strewn across the floors and her flat-screen TV and checkbook were gone.
    Megan Cassidy, azcentral, 6 Nov. 2015
  • The car contained the owner's iPhone, credit cards and checkbook.
    Tyler Langan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Sidoti also made sure that the District was one of the first in the State of Ohio to post all records on the State's online checkbook website.
    Charlene Paparizos, cleveland.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Now, he's placed it on the market for $3.8 million, but won't sell to just anyone with a checkbook.
    Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 17 May 2019
  • Harbaugh knows that to win with the Chargers, his owners will have to keep their checkbooks open.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a perception that the club is dragging its checkbook on this one.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The checkbooks of two Steelers are lighter due to penalties in Pittsburgh’s 19-13 win over the Chiefs on Sunday.
    Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 20 Oct. 2017
  • When Fritscher got to the end, Opel, satisfied, zipped up and took out his checkbook.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Two endless wars and the open checkbook to fight them started the massive debts that have followed.
    Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Decades later, my checkbook spends most of its time in my desk drawer.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 17 July 2023
  • The landscape of companies looking to make a splash with their checkbooks changes from year to year.
    cleveland, 23 Jan. 2020
  • People get dressed up, spend lots of money on tickets and have a great time as they are wined and dined in exchange for opening their checkbooks.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • One of the primary responsibilities of the Board of Supervisors is to control the county’s checkbook.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024

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