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.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHECKERED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
checkered
 a.  divided into squares; diversified in color; marked by great changes or shifts in fortune
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
3  She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with the checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
4  The checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
5  It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
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.