checkers

/ ˈtʃɛkəz /

noun

1. functioning as singular a game for two players using a checkerboard and 12 checkers each. The object is to jump over and capture the opponent's pieces

Example Sentences

The higher your score, the more likely it is that you can lip-sync along to the “Checkers” Speech.

From The Daily Beast

Then fact checkers . . . Then copy editors . . . Then lawyers!

From The Daily Beast

“It was illegal at the time for fact-checkers to also be writing stories,” she said.

From The Daily Beast

It is common to note that European elites seem to be playing checkers when they should be playing three-dimensional chess.

From The Daily Beast

In 2012 Marisa won the Shoprite Checkers Women on the Year Award.

From The Daily Beast

For the older children, checkers and dominoes are most excellent indoor games.

From Project Gutenberg

Checkers says he hunts on the Campagna, and being a reckless rider, cuts quite a figure there.

From Project Gutenberg

Checkers was tickled to death with my anonymous letter signed “Brown Eyes.”

From Project Gutenberg

We both went rather shakily into the parlor, but at that very moment, Checkers came in, his face quite pale and sober.

From Project Gutenberg

To one side of the room were several tables, at which men were already seated, playing cards or checkers.

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