Definition

Examples

• "Checking accounts are essential if you want to pay for anything by check or debit card."
• "Can I check my messages?"
• "Brian : Well at least I'm the first one here... Now then, must make sure I've brought everything... Ok then: Rug... check."
• "I would appreciate it if you could check these figures, and get to the bottom of this."
• "I know you don't check your emails, so you wouldn't have received the message I sent you last week."
• "He used to ring me at least 50 times a night to check what I was doing."
• "Corkscrew.... check. Napkins... kitchen roll..."
• "Let me go check something... I have pizza!"
• "Stuffed animal? Check. Diapers?"
• "In the morning, I like to check my emails."
• "Plastic cups... check."
• "Stroller? Check. Bottle of 24-year-old Scotch?"
• "After complaining about the weather for half an hour, she told me that she recently handed over a cheque for £90,000 to a "nice young man", and that in exchange he promised to re-plaster the ceiling in her sitting room. I'm no expert on re-plastering, but this seems like a rather large sum of money."
• "Moreover, the "nice young man" in question has not been seen since he received his cheque."
• "I'm going to go get some snacks and use the rest room. You fill up the tank, and check the tires, okay?"
• "Diapers? Check. Stroller?"
• "I'll contact our insurance broker, Ouch Insurance, and check our current policy."
• "I need to check with the wife, I'll keep you posted"
• "Curiously, the security didn't check them. I would love to share these special foods, wines and odors with you."