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verb

past tense of checker

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Recent Examples of checkered
Adjective
Another picture shows a toddler in a cerulean bonnet, popcorn top, and black and white checkered tights holding a fuchsia version. Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2022 The checkered kicks are one of Cruz’s picks for the auction and are estimated to sell for between $150,000 and $200,000. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022 Taking pictures on a boat with friends in Sydney, Dua wore a teeny, black and white checkered bra with a coordinating bottom. Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 10 Nov. 2022 For last year’s show in Copenhagen, Rave Review and Puma collaborated similarly, adding flair to the Speedcat sneaker with beaded laces, button embellishments and checkered fabric. Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for checkered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for checkered
Adjective
  • The photo put Deschanel's engagement ring, which features multicolored stones laid out in a floral pattern, front and center.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Seibert’s sage-but-kooky bird (stunningly costumed by Shelby Newport in a fabulous cloak of multicolored neckties, sort of like a bohemian bagman) delivers both great laughs and deep feeling.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 30 July 2025
Verb
  • Another pasta, striped like a candy cane, is filled with chicken from a farm at the city’s edge and strewn with local lemon balm, shiso, and cilantro.
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For an on-trend color combo, look to House of Noa’s Harlan couch, with its poppy- and maroon-striped fabric.
    Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These recall the varicolored water specimens that Wolfe has exhibited previously.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
Verb
  • Gerwig, 42, returned to Venice in a black dress with a sheer black overlay speckled with glittering flowers.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That’s because very ripe bananas—which are speckled with brown spots or even completely brown—are naturally sweeter than their green or yellow counterparts.
    Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • While the game retains the signature cel-shaded, colorful art style, the developers at Gearbox have promised a less annoyingly comedic tone.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Along with the rides, festivalgoers have access to select concessions, shopping, bathrooms and shaded areas inside the gates at Kentucky Kingdom.
    Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Women in brightly colored dresses danced in shoes that loudly clicked across the floor.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Across the valley sat a two-story barn where caramel-colored and chestnut-spotted horses plus a storybook white one were lined up along the wooden fence.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Éclairs with glossy chocolate tops, macarons in muted pastels that feel like edible architecture, madeleines flecked with salt or spice.
    Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Or try the takikomi gohan — a hot stone pot of crispy rice flecked with roasted mushrooms, edamame and sweet pea shoots and sauced with black garlic oil and a glossy egg yolk.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Its chandeliers are made of handblown Murano glass, its bathrooms of polychrome Italian marble.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 30 June 2025
  • Coat of black silk satin brocaded with polychrome silk thread in a pattern of tulips; belt of black silk satin; blouse of white silk-cotton batiste; skirt of beige cotton-linen twill.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024

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“Checkered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/checkered. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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