Example sentences for: chek

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

  • Craving some real fireworks--not to mention independence--we catch a cab to the slick, just-opened Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok.

  • The emotion aroused by the closure of Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport Sunday night (to be replaced by the "modernistic marvel" of the huge new airport of Chek Lap Kok) came "close to rivalling the events of a year ago," when the former British colony was restored to China, according to the SCMP . Referring to the old airport's hair-raising, rooftop-scraping approach and its environmental deficiencies, the newspaper said that "the sheer audacity and improbability of the place so perfectly captured the spirit of the city that Hong Kong will seem lost without it."

  • In 1992, when construction of the airport on Chek Lap Kok was begun, a 2,000-year-old village, Pak Mong, was discovered, complete with artifacts that indicated a sophisticated rural society.

  • Hong Kong's South China Morning Post praised the response of emergency services staff to the crash landing of a China Airlines jet at the city's Chek Lap Kok Airport Sunday.

  • Chek Lap Kok airport sits on reclaimed land just off Lantau; plans to build a bridge may change Lantau, but at present it is sparsely populated and makes a perfect getaway.


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