Sentence examples for check the envelope from inspiring English sources

My advice to the rival nominees: make sure you check the envelope.

Jonathan Dorn, editor in chief of Backpacker, said, "Could we check the envelope?" He said he had been having a recurring dream in which he was walking down the aisle to accept the award, when Adam Moss, editor in chief of New York magazine, a finalist in the same category, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Sorry, not this year".

Look at Warren Beatty check the envelope a second time.

The letter that came to them with the cadaver note — check the envelope to see if there's DNA.

"Could someone double-check the envelope?" he asks nervously as he steps up to collect the award.

As the oft-snubbed Scorsese himself said as he accepted his award: "Could you double-check the envelope?" Growing up among "gangsters and priests", Scorsese outdid even Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola as the definitive cinematic chronicler of the American underworld with his hard-hitting movies.

When he finally got up on the stage to receive his award for The Departed, Scorsese's first comment was: "Could you double-check the envelope?" The best way to deal with the Oscars is to accept them for what they are; a glittering, back-slapping knees-up designed to make Hollywood feel good about itself.

Horrified, I checked the envelope and saw that it was addressed to a co-worker and delivered to me by mistake.

He checked the envelope more than once, paused, looked to Dunaway, started to announce the winner, and then passed the envelope to his co-presenter, who promptly said, "La La Land".

The administrative assistant then checks the envelope and informs the participating physiotherapist about the treatment allocation.

In order to check the contents of the envelope, Peter pulls the fire alarm.