CHECKERED in a Sentence
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Example sentences for CHECKERED, such as:
1. The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.
2. It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence.
3. The checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind.
4. During his checkered career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boarding houses.
5. She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with the checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead.
2. It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence.
3. The checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind.
4. During his checkered career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boarding houses.
5. She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with the checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead.
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Meanings and Examples of CHECKERED
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checkered
a. marked by changeable fortune
a. patterned with alternating squares of color
Classic Sentence:
1 The red road lay checkered in shade and sun glare beneath the over-arching trees and the many hooves kicked up little red clouds of dust.
2 Higher up, the lane showed thickening tufts of fern and of the creeping glossy verdure of shaded slopes; trees began to overhang it, and the shade deepened to the checkered dusk of a beech-grove.
3 She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with the checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead.
4 The checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind.
5 It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence.
Example Sentence:
1 During his checkered career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boarding houses.
2 The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.