English example sentences with "checkered"

My summer school dress is blue and white checkered.
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
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He has a checkered past.
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Tom has a checkered past.
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Sami wore a checkered shirt.
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Algeria and France are still reconciling their checkered history.
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It’s hard to miss Tati. The faded Haussmanian building with its blue-and-pink checkered sign soars above the Barbès-Rochechouart metro station.
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I have a checkered past.
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This handbag will go perfectly with my checkered jacket.
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The round table was covered by a checkered tablecloth.
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Tom bought himself new jeans, a checkered shirt, a suede vest, and a cowboy hat.
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The board used in the game of Go is checkered, but it doesn't have light and dark squares like chess and checkers boards. In Go, the stones are placed not on "squares", but on the intersections of the horizontal and vertical lines drawn on the board.
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In the afternoon of the 22nd of January of 2022, on my way back from the cafe, I met Sherie, wearing a red and black checkered long-sleeved shirt, as she was walking her pitbull. I asked her the name of her dog, which is "Sekari," supposedly Inuktitut. Sherie is part-Cree, part-French, part-Norwegian, etc., a "Heinz 57," we both agreed. Sherie has artificial vampiric fangs because she is a Goth.
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My mother bought a new checkered hat, a print corset, a plaid midi skirt, a polka-dotted bag, a striped shirt, and a plain turquoise dress.
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The round table is covered by a checkered tablecloth.
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This handbag goes perfectly with my checkered jacket.
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She was dressed in black tights and a checkered skirt.
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This 17th of April of 2025, I walked to Lulu Island's Tim Hortons café, early morning, after 5, there to enjoy an Earl Grey tea with oat milk and a sausage English muffin. The vendor was Sukhman, the elegant Punjabi lady. A big white man with tattoos on his legs was standing by the till. He was wearing a black and blue checkered shirt. Ken, also a big white man, but with white hair, sat in his usual corner. It was still dark sky outside the bay windows. Jack the Chinese man in a brown jacket rendezvoused for his coffee. Before 10, with sunny weather, I walked back to Tim Hortons café this time to enjoy a Chai tea with oat milk and a croissant. The vendor was Rikku, the affable Punjabi lady. Gary, my Cantonese friend, a fan of Vietnam, sat at the long table etched with lines of an ice hockey rink. He was wearing a black leather jacket and green camouflage Vietnamese military pants. On my way home, I met Michael L. J., my Dane-French ufologist friend. And he showed me on his cellphone another video of mysterious lights in his bedroom; he attributes them to extraterrestrials. I kept to myself my thought about the Zoo Hypothesis. For lunch at home, on my sunny verandah, I ate barbecue pork on a bed of salad with red-tinted rice. Afterwards, I was eating a Tohato-brand matcha-flavoured Japanese Caramel Corn snack from a green plastic bag. Mama has Chef Tony Buns with Egg Yolk Lava in the freezer. They are black on the outside, I think, because of charcoal or something.

I walked again. Around 15:00, I found myself in Tim Hortons café again, this time for an Earl Grey tea with oat milk. At first, in the hall, there were only I at one corner and a lively olive-skinned black-haired man sitting at another corner. The sunshine bathed the hall through the bay windows. Then, a threesome African family sat and ate, then left. Some multiracial kids came to sit and read printed books. A familiar big-bodied Japanoid came in, holding a big plastic jug with dark purplish juice liquid inside. He ordered a pinkish red slush drink, and he sat a table in front of me. He was wearing a brown checkered jacket, green shirt, and blue jeans. He carried a big green sack. He plugged earphones into his ears.