Example sentences for: checkered

How can you use “checkered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The island has a checkered past of smuggling and pira cy.

  • The floors are checkered with marble slabs commemorating rich people.

  • 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.

  • We cut/dissolve to a yellow-and-red checkered race flag and into the race.

  • 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.


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