How to Use check over in a Sentence

check over

verb
  • Low gas prices have helped keep inflation in check over the past year.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Happy Feet was taken in by the rescue and checked over by a vet.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • They were checked over in a nearby hospital and are now in foster care.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 21 May 2026
  • Instead, that person can check over the AI’s work and then make the loan decision.
    — Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Kasieta says the state of Michigan cashed $18,000 of his checks over three years.
    — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Claiming early means receiving more checks over your lifetime, while delaying means fewer—but larger—payments.
    — Bydavid Schepp, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 June 2026
  • Imagine seeing a ladybug, checking over your shoulder to see if anyone is watching, eating it, then going and buying a scratcher.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • The two players were involved in a training-ground fight last week, which resulted in Valverde having to be checked over in a hospital after sustaining a cut to his head.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • Smith, the other Gellibrand resident, said the koala her family found was checked over, fed eucalyptus and released into an unburnt gumtree.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Germany was giving a tour, two student employees were sewing patches onto their staff T-shirts, and Koblegarde was checking over inventory in the kitchen aisle.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Dean’s driver had passed all 12 of his background checks over a seven-year period and more than half of his 10,000 rides before the incident received five-star ratings.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Five minutes later, Valverde gets his second — waiting until O’Reilly checks over his right shoulder, then darting in behind on the opposite side, and finishing from Vinicius Junior’s pass.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026

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