Example sentences for: checkered

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

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

  • Meanwhile, back inside the car, Speed avoids another fiery collision to cross the finish line under the black-and-white checkered flag.

  • Clearly, this rosily checkered past was soon to be replaced, chiefly, it seems, as Judeo-Christian-Islamic-Confucian-Buddhist cultures flourished.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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