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How to use checker in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Checker means one who or that which checks or verifies something. Example: “There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.”

Examples of checker by meaning

nounOne who or that which checks or verifies something.

  • So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.1992, Neil J. Salkind, Applying Macintosh: Solutions, Ideas, and Tools, Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 205

nounOne who makes a check mark.

  • "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."1989, M. Manfred Fabritius, William Borges, Saving the Savings and Loan

nounThe clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.

  • There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.
  • Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press

More sentences with checker

  • “Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.From the entry crown
  • The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker.From the entry execution
  • The student manually corrected several errors missed by the spell checker.From the entry manually
  • I ran the grammar checker on my novel, but the strange names confused it.From the entry grammar checker
  • The teacher urged the students to do a manual check, because some errors aren't picked up by the spell checker.From the entry manual
  • I typed "xary" and the spell checker autosuggested "X-ray".From the entry autosuggest
  • Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry stock
  • Happy to volunteer being a lore checker when it comes to the crikeycore stuff too, not that it's fundamental.2025 February 7, u/-FLAXENOID-, “D R U N K”, in Reddit, r/Voicesofthevoid, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2025. From the entry crikeycore
  • With the advent of project-management methodologies, the project manager's career path in some companies has morphed into a simple "box checker”.2019, Anthony Washington, Douglas Scott, Creating AWE for Business, Project, and Agile Management, page 14. From the entry box checker
  • Today a box checker may escape detection by claiming Hispanic origin at the outset of a hiring, contracting, or admissions process.2003, Kevin R. Johnson, Mixed Race America and the Law, page 309. From the entry box checker
  • The thick plottens in the checker scandal.1909 February 3, “In the wake of the news: Weaving the net”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, page 12. From the entry the thick plottens
  • The catch is that to get the full benefits of the type checker, the programmers have to add complex annotations to their code.2015 April 2, James Somers, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review. From the entry typechecker
  • I typed it as 'Gewurztraminer', but the spell checker had the spelling with the umlaut in it, so I changed it to that.1998 June 3, Matthew Lawrenson, “new page!!!!!”, in alt.games.creatures (Usenet). From the entry teutonophone
  • Does anyone know of any web based or downloadable or floppy file sized, virus checker that can scan a local computer for viruses AND (more importantly) keycatchers?2002 August 16, Tom Wilson, “Disabling keycatching apps on cafe machines”, in alt.cybercafes (Usenet). From the entry keycatcher
  • Misrings are caused by a myriad of factors: price illegibility, incorrect pricing, checker pilferage (discounting or sweethearting), tax lookup errors, change making errors, and human errors.1976, Industrial Engineering, page 11. From the entry misring
  • If concolic testing fails to cover some test goals, then the model checker refines its program abstraction to prove more paths infeasible, which reduces the search space for concolic testing.2015, Przemysław Daca, Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, “Abstraction-driven Concolic Testing”, in arXiv. From the entry concolic

Meaning of checker

  1. noun One who or that which checks or verifies something.
  2. noun One who makes a check mark.
  3. noun The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.

Full definition of checker

Questions about checker in a sentence

How do you use checker in a sentence?
Checker is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.”
What is a short sentence with checker?
“The thick plottens in the checker scandal.”
What does checker mean?
Checker means one who or that which checks or verifies something.

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