How to Use checkpoint in a Sentence

checkpoint

noun

• Our car was stopped at a police checkpoint before we were permitted to cross the border.
• There was no checkpoint to get in.
  — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
• Word at the checkpoint that the wind had calmed up ahead proved false.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021
• Ready or not, here comes a cosmic checkpoint!
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
• Just a few months ago, reaching the glitzy checkpoint was a pipe dream.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• There will be room to dry gear this year with only a few teams at each checkpoint.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
• All other checkpoints are still open.
  — Brandon Goldner, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• Here’s where and when Where are the Kendall-area checkpoints?
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• There will be ticket checkpoints along both of those roads as fans make their way up the hill.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
• The tests are designed to serve as checkpoints for student progress.
  — Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2024
• The north checkpoint is moving faster, with a 37 minute wait time.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
• The shooting stopped and they were allowed across the checkpoint.
  — Mo Abbas, NBC news, 25 May 2025
• To view a full list of checkpoints for planned initiatives, click here.
  — Andrew Adeolu, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
• Israeli soldiers set up a checkpoint near his house.
  — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
• The first checkpoint is a bunch of math equations that end up spelling out a word phrase.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• But our fifth checkpoint is at Broughton Beach, in the far north of the city.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
• Audit logs and human checkpoints aren’t nice-to-haves.
  — Steve Osler, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• School employees must staff checkpoints and search bags.
  — Jeff Amy, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
• The new class of hardware is checkpoint CT.
  — Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
• Getting aid through the checkpoints and into Gaza is the easy part.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
• They were stopped at two different checkpoints.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
• When a gun is found at a checkpoint, the TSA does not seize it.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2022
• Week 4 is often a checkpoint for many programs.
  — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
• This means that compliance is not a one-time checkpoint in a linear process.
  — Sanjay Ghare, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Police at the first checkpoint were thorough and even asked me to take a sip of my water.
  — Álvaro Valiño, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• The traffic is far more than the border checkpoint can handle.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Until he gets pulled over at one of the military checkpoints.
  — Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
• They were held at a Russian checkpoint for an hour and a half, while the girl sat in the back seat.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2022
• To stay focused on the next game, daily checkpoints and mind-set are crucial.
  — Noah White, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
• Her boyfriend has just been drafted, to serve thankfully, for now, at a checkpoint.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026