What is "checkup"

Usage examples of "checkup".

Two years ago, on the morning of November second, Ben Chadbourne checked into Bethesda for his annual checkup.

Did the ghosts of Levantine girls haunt those cursory checkups, suggested by the fragility of my collarbone, or the birdcall of my small, congested lungs?

He would remain my local oncologist, and I would see him for countless more blood tests and checkups, but thanks to his generous spirit and willingness to collaborate with others in my treatment, he also became my friend.

I wrote to every one of the kennels in Dorset, and they all sent me their fancy brochures with color pictures of where they kept their animals, and actual menus of what they fed them, and how the runs and cages were heated, and what days the vet would come for checkups, and what days they did worming and grooming and all.

Arnie always chose the sloppiest, scabbiest, rottenest tramps in the world when he wanted a woman, so Little Bob always made Arnie go to a doctor for a checkup before letting him back.

He said you would be out on checkup tomorrow and that would be the time.

It had been eaten out in the desert before the return, so in less than half an hour of the completion of the checkup, men had gathered before the Main House, waiting.

It was much louder than it had been on the day of the checkup, and since the lock was a small one designed for three or four men rather than a giant one designed for nine sand-cars, the air pressure dropped much more quickly.

Dad has to go up to Champaign, to Burke Hospital, tomorrow for a routine checkup.

The checkup is the monthly drive through all the farm to check on the plant rows.

I'll call the doctor and make an appointment for a checkup, and meanwhile we're all doing just fine out here.

Quite often the final chemo treatment did not erase every trace of cancer, and I would need monthly blood tests and checkups to ensure that the disease was in full retreat.

She had come with me to my monthly checkups, and sat with me in front of those X rays, but we never felt the need to discuss the big picture.

Sometimes she and Jack tended to be irresponsible about things like checkups and life insurance and servicing the cars.

We learned from the radicals that prostitution wasn’t even officially legal — as we had thought — that there were registered whores who played by the rules, got their medical checkups, trafficked in the right districts, and that there were ‘pirates’ who never registered, or who turned in a Büchl (a license) but continued to practice the profession: that there were almost a thousand registered whores in the city in the early 1960s.