How to Use check mark in a Sentence

check mark

noun
  • When the message was opened, the check marks turned blue.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Click the blue check mark in the upper right of the screen.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • If an item has been shared, this button will show a check mark.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 24 June 2020
  • Facebook has its own version of the blue-and-white check mark.
    — NBC News, 20 May 2021
  • Click the blue check mark in the upper right corner of the screen.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Make sure any toggles here are off (a gray dot instead of a green check mark).
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Those check marks are used to enforce voting rights and civil rights laws.
    — John Blake, CNN, 11 June 2018
  • The other has a green check mark over the face because only her eyes are seen.
    — Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
  • Now, the blue check marks are available to anyone for purchase.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Now that the account is back up and running, the blue check mark is still missing.
    — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The company added a hashtag—#validated—followed by a green check mark.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Any name change will cause a temporary loss of a verified check mark.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2022
  • There was this one blue check mark that hit me up first, and this was a couple months before the reunion.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Last week, up popped a blue check mark on my @SenatorEdMarkey account.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Court records show a check mark in a box next to a paragraph explaining the denial.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the first half of the season has hit a lot of check marks for the perennial contenders.
    — Pierre Lebrun, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The list on his bedroom door now is covered with check marks, including one next to that last line.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2020
  • So putting check marks next to any games for the remainder of the season is dubious.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Select the date and time that fits your schedule and tap the check mark in the upper right corner of the screen.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Tight ends who can dunk always get a check mark from fake GM Mando.
    — Armando Salguero, miamiherald, 27 Apr. 2018
  • After clicking the check mark, a pop-up box delivers one of two messages.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The only thing that matters is the final score, and getting that check mark in the win column.
    — Hunter Cooke, ajc, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Putting a check mark, star or sticker on a work assignment can go a long way to encourage a kid.
    — USA Today, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The blue check mark was an important safeguard for consumers, Markey wrote.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
  • WhatsApp showed a single check mark, meaning that the message hadn’t reached him.
    — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The letter asks people to show their support by commenting with a green check mark emoji.
    — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2025
  • So being able to react to our many, many, many messages with the simple green check mark lets some of the pressure off.
    — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 13 June 2021
  • The check mark is Gandhi in a world built by Bezos and Zuckerberg.
    — Amitava Kumar, New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • Hriniak describes a swing that is like a check mark, a line down and direct to the ball and then level to up at the finish.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The second type are locally available files, which have a green check mark on them and live both on your device and in the cloud.
    — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2023

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