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.
  • Here’s where and when Where are the Kendall-area checkpoints?
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But our fifth checkpoint is at Broughton Beach, in the far north of the city.
    WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • When a gun is found at a checkpoint, the TSA does not seize it.
    Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The Jaba checkpoint was even closer, just down the road, near enough to smell the smoke.
    Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • They were stopped at a rebel checkpoint and forced to get out, Ms. al-Ajouria said.
    Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Just a few months ago, reaching the glitzy checkpoint was a pipe dream.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
  • The shooting stopped and they were allowed across the checkpoint.
    Mo Abbas, NBC news, 25 May 2025
  • The Fuel finished the first checkpoint with three and a half minutes in the time bank.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 2 June 2021
  • Getting aid through the checkpoints and into Gaza is the easy part.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
  • By the first week of November, the checkpoints stood empty.
    James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The man missed his flight and was escorted from the checkpoint by police, the TSA said.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Oleh’s company went first and dug in at the first Russian checkpoint in the city.
    Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • David Combs, 63, was one of the first residents to make it through the checkpoint Thursday.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The tests are designed to serve as checkpoints for student progress.
    Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 17 July 2024
  • The main race route is a 4.6-mile loop along the Milwaukee River, with four checkpoints along the way.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • As far as the future of Nike’s City Connect series goes, this has served as a bit of a checkpoint for the rest of the teams.
    Demetrius Bell, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • That was also higher than the checkpoint volume for the same day in 2019.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 3 July 2021
  • In front of the border checkpoint stood a large white obelisk and a red Soviet star.
    New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Those federal fines are the TSA's tool to punish those who bring a gun to a checkpoint.
    CBS News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Those federal fines are the TSA’s tool to punish those who bring a gun to a checkpoint.
    Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
  • There's checkpoints, police stops and checks you, and curfew lifts at 5:00 in the morning.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2023
  • From the city of Nablus in the north to Hebron in the south, young men marched on Israeli checkpoints, throwing stones and burning tires in the streets.
    Dalia Hatuqa, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Who was voted out of 'The Summit'? On Day 2, the group reached the first of nine checkpoints camp, where they were treated to food and wine.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The family got stopped at the fourth checkpoint, closest to the airport.
    Cindy Carcamo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The Ukrainian police guard the last checkpoint on the edge of the town of Sloviansk, hunkered down in the woods just a few miles from the front line.
    New York Times, 10 July 2022
  • The rally would have included security checkpoints like those fans go through at sporting events.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025

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