"check a text" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You would use this phrase in a situation where you are asking someone to look through a text for errors or typos, such as in a sentence like: "Can you please check this text for errors before I submit it?".
Scan the chicken cutlets, check a text.
At one superb moment, he even has two phones on the go, in order to check a text while he talks.
Wisps of incense smoke curl through shafts of sunlight, bowls of dumplings and fresh yogurt are passed around, and now and again a monk rises to check a text message or find his cellphone charger.
In Dallas, a college student sunk his chance to have an internship at a hedge fund last summer when he pulled out a BlackBerry to look up a fact to help him make a point during his interview, then lingered — momentarily, but perceptibly — to check a text message a friend had sent, said Trevor Hanger, the head of equity trading at the hedge fund, who was helping conduct the interview.
Do you find yourself constantly saying "Just a minute" or "Uh huh" to your children as you check a text or shoot off an email?
Most of us have been on both sides of the forward head tilt (let's call it FHT), that precise moment in time when we go from a quick and casual glance to check a text, score or headline on our smartphone to all-out engagement where our heads literally move closer to the screen.
As he was checking a text, a woman bumped into him, and he dropped the phone onto the sidewalk.
As it stands, an actor could be fined $2,500 for as little as checking a text during a booking, for being "inattentive".
Sheriff Ira Edwards of Clarke County, Georgia, who is black, said that he missed the comment when it was made (he thinks he must have been checking a text or email) but was told about it later.
When it does take place, it rarely happens without someone pulling out a blackberry to check on a text or e-mail.
