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Example sentences for: checkers

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

When I was deputy editor of the New Republic during a seven-month period of apostasy in 1994, there were no fact checkers; it was before the whole Ruth Shalit business, so the fact checking "department" that Jack describes did not exist.
When I ask people how they use their dictionaries, they tell me for spelling (now I suppose more and more people just use spell checkers for that), or sometimes to look up an unfamiliar word.
Popular, too, is the game of caroms, played by flicking checkers on a square board with corner pockets.
Electronic spelling checkers cannot detect phonetic errors where one homonym—or near-homonym—replaces another, e.g.:
Second, perfect play (which is not necessarily the same as inspiring or imaginative play) in games like checkers and chess can be reduced to pure computation.