Sentence examples for checking and re-checking from inspiring English sources

For the next two hours the vigil continued, with Jets fans glancing at the gate where the players enter the field, like so many expectant fathers checking and re-checking their watches.

But finally, after much talk, checking and re-checking the scrap of paper that was supposed to announce our arrival, the men unlocked the gates, stepped aside and said, "Welcome to El Cedral".

They slept not a wink, checking and re-checking the numbers "about 50 times during the night" before they could phone and confirm whether their life was, indeed, about to be altered irrevocably.

And in a craft in which small errors are commonplace and bigger mistakes a regular occupational hazard, Ms. Toner devised a meticulous personal method for checking and re-checking names, dates, facts and figures in her own raw copy, a step few reporters take.

But finally, after much talk, checking and re-checking the scrap of paper that was supposed to announce our arrival, the men unlocked the gates, stepped aside and said, "Welcome to El Cedral". We collapsed on to our rucksacks in relief.

It means that security administrators are constantly checking and re-checking to make sure everything is protected.

Potatoes are checked and re-checked.

He checked and re-checked that his life jacket was properly buckled.

Fresh-faced GIs rubbed trinkets, kissed pictures of sweethearts, checked and re-checked their equipment.

All this is to say that people should check and re-check their assumptions.

Ledger page totals and sub-totals had to checked and re-checked.