Sentence examples similar to checking off a item from inspiring English sources

And she says that as a present for his 40th birthday, "as busy as he was," he got and took those promised piano lessons, diligently checking off an item on his to-do list.

But because these pleasures are mostly confined to discrete set pieces (which, unfortunately, tend to read like pastiches of Cabrera Infante's great 1967 novel of pre-Castro Havana, "Three Trapped Tigers"), the novel's depiction of Caribbean sensual exuberance actually feels dutiful, wearily bureaucratic, as if the writer were checking off an item on an official form.

Today, in the heart of New York City, Steve reached the pinnacle of his larger-than-life nature and checked off an item that is on the bucket list of every musician and performer on Earth.

You can reward yourself every time you check off an item from your to-do list.

If you feel like you're only having sex to check off an item on your to-do list.

Former President Jimmy Carter is close to checking off a major bucket-list item: ending a horrific and ancient disease.

And as the years pass and you fail to check off a single item?

Rather this is an invitation to view productivity with a wider lens, to be gentle and appreciative of yourself, even on days when you don't check off a single item on your to-do list.

You may feel constantly overwhelmed or like you're spinning out of control, desperately trying to check off a few items from your to-do list, because you never pause to take a break.

Perhaps they wish to visit family, take a trip somewhere they've never been, or check off an unfinished item on their own private bucket list.

It's a product of the highest quality, but at the end of the day that's what it is: a machine-made, assembly-line product whose strengths tend to feel like items checked off a master list rather than being the result of any kind of individual creative touch".