How to Use checkers in a Sentence

checkers

noun
  • Want to see whether the fact-checkers got the study right?
    Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The half time show for the 56th Super Bowl game is chess, not checkers to Dr. Dre.
    Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The public would act as the fact checkers of a politician’s lies.
    New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • The rules are the same as the board game classic: put four checkers of your color in a row.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Ring of Honor, new uniforms, Ruler of the Jungle, (etc.) are box checkers for the change.
    The Enquirer, 13 May 2022
  • After that first game of checkers, Maya and Jonathan continued to talk in letters and emails and on the phone.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 7 July 2021
  • Fact-checkers are too few, too slow and sometimes too biased to solve it alone.
    Tom Siegel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Biden's math, too, has been challenged by fact-checkers.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Fact checkers have found that Trump’s claims regarding the CDC and testing to be false.
    Washington Post, 4 May 2021
  • The claim became so widespread that fact-checkers worked to debunk it.
    New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The ad’s claim has been dubbed a falsehood by Washington Post fact-checkers.
    Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
  • This one will have a unique fun factor in the form of a game room with adult-size versions of classics like checkers and Connect Four.
    Eric Rosen, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2021
  • These claims are as wild as any Mr. Trump made—even if the fact checkers have gone conveniently deaf.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • And in the end … the moves deployed by President Gersson Rosas and his staff seemed more like a nice, wholesome game of checkers.
    Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • One lived in Whitehall, and was a miner who loved playing checkers.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Their induction into the Hall of Fame puts them in the same league as Barbie, dominoes and checkers.
    Giulia Heyward and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Of equal need, however, is for the pack of 12 forwards to be faster, more efficient hunters and checkers.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2021
  • Vaccine checkers in bright T-shirts inspected phones and cards as the crowds made their way into the theaters.
    Mark Kennedy, ajc, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Fact-checkers have debunked similar claims in the past.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
  • If esports makes it into the Olympics, what would be next — tiddlywinks, checkers, chess?
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Thanks to the fact-checkers, who could hardly keep up with the lies and distortions that raced around social media and came out of the president’s mouth.
    Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Numerous fact-checkers, news sites and health experts have debunked the claim.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Fact checkers at Lead Stories reached the same conclusion.
    Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2020
  • They were brought by their parents, with some exceptions, fact checkers said.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The bill would require fact checkers to register with the Michigan Secretary of State and post bonds of at least $1 million.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2021
  • On Facebook, the big change will be that Trump's posts will be eligible for fact checks by third-party fact-checkers.
    Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • But look around your living room at the homemade quilts, warm lights, and checkers sets under your living room table.
    WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
  • These claims about coffee, fruit juices and soda pop have been debunked by media fact-checkers.
    Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Reviewers love the size for teaching young kids the strategy of playing checkers, which—fun fact—has been around since 3,000 B.C.E.
    Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2022
  • Johnson may be able to repeat his G7 claim without being slapped down by fact checkers.
    Charles Riley, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022

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