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Example sentences for: checkered

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The island has a checkered past of smuggling and pira cy.
What moves us in Keats is precisely this checkered metaphysics--the haunting apprehension that the seed planted in the "wide arable land of events" might be the seed of death, not life.
Green means the sea is calm and a lifeguard is on duty; green plus a checkered flag means that no lifeguard is on duty; yellow urges caution; red means danger and warns bathers to stay ashore.
The article recounts Weil's checkered history: As a Harvard undergraduate, he exposed Timothy Leary's LSD experiments, but he later did research concluding that marijuana is harmless.
In today's politics, the son's checkered résumé signifies success.