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
• The Jaba checkpoint was even closer, just down the road, near enough to smell the smoke.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• By the first week of November, the checkpoints stood empty.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Those federal fines are the TSA’s tool to punish those who bring a gun to a checkpoint.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
• Those federal fines are the TSA's tool to punish those who bring a gun to a checkpoint.
  — CBS News, 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
• Ukraine and Poland agreed to open a checkpoint on Monday for a handful of trucks leaving Ukraine.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• There’s a third checkpoint between Furnace Creek and Dante’s View.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Carey has the skills to guide you out of a fire fight, negotiate through a rebel checkpoint and deal with a gunshot wound.
  — Rob Williams, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• During the race, mushers must take one 24-hour layover at a checkpoint to rest.
  — Mark Thiessen, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
• On the way, the convoy stopped at a checkpoint where soldiers were eating a meal: a giant platter of camel meat and rice.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Mother and son were not allowed to touch or talk in the back of the security car that drove them to a West Bank checkpoint.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Any solid foods can go through the TSA checkpoint – on Thanksgiving or any other day of the year.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The checkpoints have created long traffic jams that stretch for many miles.
  — By dov Lieber, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
• Seavey was the first musher to reach the Cripple checkpoint, which is the halfway point of the race, officials said Wednesday night.
  — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Sure, there will be other checkpoints along the way, but what more needs to be said to pronounce this a raving success and be done with the whole process?
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• But in the third checkpoint, Team Argentina's Claudia passes them both to take first place.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• Firearms were caught at 265 airport checkpoints nationwide, the TSA said.
  — Daily Times, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• Satellite images from Planet Labs also show the before-and-after view where the wall was blown up to get across at the checkpoint.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Even with all checkpoints and lanes open, the airport can only push through so many passengers an hour.
  — Alison Saldanha, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
• This static game of cat and mouse will play out several times past several checkpoints on the route.
  — David Culver, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• About 150 feet from the door, police had set up a checkpoint to harass and intimidate staff.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• Israeli police have set up checkpoints on the highways leading from Israel’s south toward the center and the north of the country.
  — By dov Lieber, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
• At one of the checkpoints, as militia fighters beat him with sticks, his wife intervened but became herself the target and was hit in the neck.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• The entire West Bank has been sealed off, with multiple roadblocks and checkpoints between cities, since then.
  — Fatima Abdulkarim, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• Finland’s border checkpoints have seen a sudden surge of Middle Eastern and African migrants in the past month.
  — Vanessa Gera and Jari Tanner, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
• For some time after the start of the pandemic, the Border Patrol's northbound checkpoints set up along the state highways remained closed.
  — The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024