How to Use name-check in a Sentence

name-check

verb
  • Plenty of Presidents don’t even get name-checked.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • But the kids are alright, too, and several up-and-comers are name-checked as ones to watch.
    — Max Mathews, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Claudine Longet — chanteuse, alleged killer, and Gilmore Girls name-check — has died.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • The movie even name-checks Million Dollar Baby at one point — the path ahead is clear.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Now, she name-checks fellow makeup artist, Nina Park, as someone who nails the look time and time again.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
  • But Vuletić says another Hollywood star was initially planned to get name-checked in that scene.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Again, the only alternative that Duffy name-checked was Blue Origin.
    — PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Footloose is also name-checked, which is technically not a horror movie but is about a small town that stubbornly refuses to change.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • He has been name-checked in hip-hop culture for decades, including by Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott.
    — Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
  • LaNasa name-checks Barbara Stanwyck as an example of an actress who continued to get strong roles throughout her career.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • Chilling Chambers is little more than half-hearted fan service that name-checks every maze in Scary Farm history on a crypt or gravestone.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI were all name-checked.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • As such, Novak name-checked a number of glam literary (and literary-adjacent) powerhouses in his opening speech.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • Centre-back Virgil van Dijk also name-checked his fellow countryman after conceding two goals on the counter-attack in Friday’s opener.
    — Gregg Evans, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In a potentially damaging first, one of the conversations released Wednesday name-checked Zelensky himself.
    — Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Acknowledging his grandchildren on stage and name-checking his daughters Natacha and Dominique, Caine said his family was now his priority in life.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Zelensky name-checked in court Court hearings on the investigation – live streamed on the public broadcaster’s website – have been underway in Kyiv since Tuesday and look set to continue for at least the next few days.
    — Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Polis even name-checked the program and Colorado’s best-in-the-nation childhood poverty rate in his final State of the State address — albeit, lumped in with a celebration of cuts to property taxes and income taxes.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
  • The metaphysical shop and apothecary, located on Hollywood Way, is featured in the film and name-checked as the spot where Bear buys his One Wish Willow for Nikki.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
  • Now 46, the singer draws inspiration from the music that inspired her, name-checking Prince and the Gap Band, for a spate of upbeat tunes dotted by glittery synths, pummeling 808s and plucky bass notes.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Trump wrote Monday in a Truth Social post, before name-checking the Golden State and slamming its Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.
    — Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But Law’s sultry vocal and the pair’s hyperspecific, borough-name-checking lyrics are what encouraged the ladies of NYC’s Caribbean diaspora to embrace the track as their latest anthem.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Newsom has recently started name-checking the Abundance movement, which aims to convince Democrats that overregulation and NIMBYism are holding back the growth of blue states.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Robinson, meanwhile, delivered Leo a Chicago flag pin and remarked on how the pope was fluently hyperlocal, name-checking the Catholic school Robinson attended, Mount Carmel, even specific city streets such as Kedzie, Augusta and Damen.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • The 154-pound division is loaded, and a win positions the victor for a unification bid against WBC champion Sebastian Fundora or IBF titleholder Josh Kelly, both of whom have name-checked these fighters.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Early manager Mike Appel had to twist his arm to speak with Time for a 1975 cover story, and Springsteen generally stayed far away from the partisan political fray, even when President Reagan tried to absorb some of his popularity by name-checking him on the 1984 campaign trail.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Determined to stitch together an integrated HBO Stephen King–verse, Welcome to Derry folds in a young Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk), the Overlook’s telepathic cook from The Shining, and even name-checks Shawshank Prison as part of its expanding mythology.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025

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