How to Use checking account in a Sentence

checking account

noun
  • Learn how to compare costs when choosing the right bank to open savings and checking accounts.
    Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 10 Apr. 2018
  • One of the largest recurring donations from my mother’s checking account was for Mary’s church group.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Neighborhood leaders say the balances of their checking accounts doesn't tell the real story.
    Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 2 May 2018
  • Woodfin also challenged neighborhood associations to open up their checking accounts and help the city invest in their neighborhoods.
    Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The target is younger consumers and people without checking accounts, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter.
    Bloomberg, latimes.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The high-end creamy powder highlighters are at the top of several beauty must-have lists (for good reason) and the makeup brand just gave us another reason to dip into our checking accounts.
    Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Launching checking accounts could tighten Amazon's grip on its consumers -- and possibly disrupt the banking industry.
    USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2018
  • These people are relentless self-promoters whose loyalty lies with their private agendas and their checking accounts—not the president or the country, and certainly not to each other.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 15 May 2018
  • Several other purchases were made using the victim’s checking account without permission.
    Brian Cox, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • People who automate their savings, through paycheck contributions to 401(k)s or recurring transfers from their checking accounts, do tend to save more.
    Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The next day the two went to a local bank and opened a checking account in the student’s name.
    David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2020
  • And I’ve-a got, like, five coins in my checking account.
    Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • He was left with $1,700 in his checking account and no idea what to do next.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2023
  • On July 20, Bank of the West launched a 1% for the Planet checking account.
    Kassondra Cloos, Outside Online, 30 July 2020
  • Our guess is a hell of a lot more than any of us will ever have in our checking accounts.
    refinery29.com, 25 June 2018
  • And then direct the IRS to put the rest in your savings or checking account or elsewhere.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Moore picked him back up from work Friday morning, and then took him to a bank to open a checking account.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 19 June 2020
  • Joe, for lack of a better name, has $1.25 million in his checking account.
    Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The first time my checking account was ever over $3,000 was during that job.
    Charlotte Cowles, New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • After installing the App, and while still talking with them on the phone, her checking account had $3,200 taken out of it.
    cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
  • If your checking account doesn’t have much money, save it.
    Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Even for people who have checking accounts, low-balance fees can take a toll, as can ATM fees, the report added.
    Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
  • These deposits leave you with less available cash in your checking account that you might be tempted to spend.
    Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Of the spending cut by veto, about $555 million was from the general fund, the state's main checking account.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2019
  • AmEx launched a new Kabbage checking account for that market last month.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 23 July 2021
  • For its Advantage Plus checking account, the fee is $12.
    Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • We’ve been told over and over that the only way out of trauma is by burning through our dwindling checking accounts.
    Kristin Iversen, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2020
  • But checking accounts often serve to get customers in the digital door so that banks can sell them loans.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Her boyfriend has already stolen $200 from her checking account since his release from jail.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
  • He wasn’t allowed to open credit cards or checking accounts while paroled, Chris Walker, a former Secret Service agent who worked the case, told me.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024

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