How to Use checkoff in a Sentence

checkoff

1 of 2 noun
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  • This isn’t the first time the tax checkoff for at-risk children has come under scrutiny.
    — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Dairy farmers must pay 15 cents per hundred pounds of milk sold into the checkoff program.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Essentially, they are told to bring a clipboard with a checkoff list to each campus.
    — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The checkoffs do not affect how much money a taxpayer owes.
    — Lisa Lerer, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2017
  • Though the report did not specify whether a checklist was completed, Winn said such a checkoff should have prompted the pilot to hold off from flying.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Far from being an overrun bucket-list checkoff site, Alcatraz in the late 1960s was a deserted, decaying shell.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Mayor Mark Farrell will probably remain in office for at least five weeks beyond the June 5 mayoral election, leaving him with plenty of time for the one final checkoff of his short term — the foreign junket.
    — Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2018
  • Making a team one dimensional is usually at the top of the checkoff list for a defensive coordinator.
    — Charles Hollis, al, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Colorado’s tax checkoff program should be applauded, not disparaged.
    — Jon Pushkin, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Jon Pushkin is a spokesperson for Checkoff Colorado, a collaborative statewide awareness campaign designed to educate taxpayers about the state’s tax checkoff program.
    — Jon Pushkin, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Read more: The organization gets resources from fund-raising benefits and voluntary checkoffs on paychecks for everybody from above-the-title stars to best boy, key grip and other jobs nobody outside the movie industry understands.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The law establishing the tax-checkoff fund requires annual financial reports to the mayor and D.C. Council, a measure to make sure taxpayers’ voluntary contributions are properly spent.
    — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Your story about Colorado’s tax checkoff program painted a misleading picture of an extremely successful program that provides a critical source of donations to a diverse range of nonprofits serving communities across the state.
    — Jon Pushkin, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
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check off

2 of 2 verb
  • The to-do list item that doesn’t get checked off the list.
    — David Crown, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • One thing that hasn’t been checked off the to-do list yet?
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The scene with the wife is a dead end for him, just an item to check off the list.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 May 2021
  • Nobody wants more items to check off the to-clean list.
    — Maya Pottiger, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • One part of the planning that was easy to check off their to-do list?
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • There's just one final box to check off — the last one.
    — Mike Mazzeo, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Make a calendar and check off at the end of the day how your day went.
    — Sophia Tulp, USA TODAY College, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Choose the sizing that’s best for you and check off one of your go-to ’fits for the summer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
  • This is the stress-free way to shop and an easy way to check off your shopping list.
    — Valerie Li, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • Stuck on where to find sandals that check off all of the boxes?
    — Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Mora hopes to check off, one that hasn’t been reached since 2015.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Still, a lot of boxes have been checked off this season for the Zips.
    — Elton Alexander, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Here are 25 things to try to have checked off your list by Monday night.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The state is a birder’s paradise with 566 species to check off your list.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • And once the easy projects are done, check off other crucial to-dos.
    — Steve Carney, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • But fans — and the team — want to check off that last box and wonder when that’ll happen.
    — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2022
  • And sometimes, the best ones are just fun to check off your travel list.
    — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Just add a mattress and check off this item off your list for the next five years at least.
    — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Heather and Peter just checked off the fifth bus on their list while riding the 90-Owl.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Twelve more months to check off items on our bucket lists!
    — Marcy Meffert, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Palmer got his wish, and Darnold checked off all the boxes as his t-shirt got soaked.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The only one of those items he’s checked off is the WBC title, which he’s won once.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • More calories burned for you, and a check off of your bucket list.
    — Nicol Natale, Woman's Day, 8 May 2020
  • Criss says the new album was a check off his bucket list.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Now the engagement photos are checked off the to-do list, too.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Beaman listed some of the big things that will be great to check off your list now.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 1 June 2020
  • But there’s one thing the star has yet to check off his list: male modeling.
    — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • With that goal checked off the list, the team’s attention is turning to the playoffs.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
  • More calories burned for you, and a check off your bucket list.
    — Nicol Natale, Woman's Day, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, Carter blasted the voter who checked off Reese's name and said that voter should be revealed.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024

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