CHEQUE in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for CHEQUE, such as:

1. Yesterday is an invalid cheque.
2. I paid the cheque into my savings account.
3. Someone had forged her signature on the cheque.
4. The bank hasn't issued me with a cheque card yet.
5. I enclose a cheque in settlement of your account.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHEQUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cheque
 n.  written order directing a bank to pay money
Classic Sentence:
1  The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2  She opened the envelope and a cheque fluttered to the floor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
3  Lily sat down beside the desk at the foot of her bed, and spreading out the cheque, read over and over the TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS written across it in a steely business hand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
4  She reached out suddenly and, drawing the cheque from her writing-desk, enclosed it in an envelope which she addressed to her bank.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  She then wrote out a cheque for Trenor, and placing it, without an accompanying word, in an envelope inscribed with his name, laid the two letters side by side on her desk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  He opened the cheque-book, and saw that, the very night before, a cheque of ten thousand dollars from Mrs. Peniston's executors had been entered in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
7  He gave her three hundred dollars in money; I saw the cheque.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
8  Should the charge be less than this amount, you can return balance; if greater, we shall at once send cheque for difference on hearing from you.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The books he received for review were almost more welcome than the paltry cheque.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
10  Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  He will have paper that he write on; he will have his book of cheques.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  I paid the cheque into my savings account.
2  The cheque was posted to your home address yesterday.
3  We went straight to the estate agent and wrote out a cheque.
4  We are not prepared to write a blank cheque for companies that have run into trouble.
5  The bank hasn't issued me with a cheque card yet.
6  The architect was given / presented with a blank cheque to design a new city centre.
7  Yesterday is an invalid cheque.
8  Someone had forged her signature on the cheque.
9  I enclose a cheque in settlement of your account.
10  They forged their manager's signature on the cheque to steal money from bank.
11  A banker's card states that a bank will pay the owner's cheques to a stated amount.
12  Only the manager has the authority to sign cheques.
13  The cheques were delivered to the bank by a private courier firm.
14  The credit card eliminates the need for cash or cheques.
15  Use recorded delivery for large cheques or money orders.