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chequered
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chequered
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chequered flag
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flag
▪ The famous horseshoe-shaped radiator was seen taking the chequered flag at Le Mans, Brooklands and Silverstone.
▪ However, defending champion Lyons was in top form and went on to take the chequered flag for the second year running.
▪ It was a disappointing performance by the Bears for whom only Mark Lemon and the determined Odom took the chequered flag.
history
▪ But in recent years Microvitec has had a chequered history.
▪ The Art and Antiques squad had enjoyed a chequered history.
▪ The mill's chequered history is almost a Who's Who of eminent local individuals and families of clothiers.
▪ The corporation has had a chequered history since then.
▪ London Road has enjoyed a chequered history.
▪ Unsurprising, you might argue, given the chequered history of pop singers in the theatre.
▪ But the block, like most of its kind, had had a chequered history.
▪ For all that, it was a dismal phase in the chequered history of postwar Britain.
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▪ London Road has enjoyed a chequered history.
▪ The Art and Antiques squad had enjoyed a chequered history.
▪ The famous horseshoe-shaped radiator was seen taking the chequered flag at Le Mans, Brooklands and Silverstone.
▪ The management of information systems in education is still not free from their chequered past.
▪ The mill's chequered history is almost a Who's Who of eminent local individuals and families of clothiers.
▪ The mink has had a chequered relationship with us, but we must remember that the changes are of our own making.
▪ The trees, two white and one pink, were an extravaganza of blossom which floated down on to the chequered tablecloths.
▪ Unsurprising, you might argue, given the chequered history of pop singers in the theatre.
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chequered

  1. (context chiefly British English) (alternative spelling of checkered English) v

  2. (en-past of: chequer)

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chequered

adj. patterned with alternating squares of color [syn: checked, checkered]

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Usage examples of "chequered".

Their gay and noiseless movement as they glance through the air, crossing each other in chequered maze, is very beautiful.

The bay itself is the tenderest blue-green, and on the rolling plain which borders it lies intense sunlight chequered with moving shadows which wander eastwards.

Naccaro mopped his brow, put away his large chequered handkerchief, and sat down again.

In the course of his chequered career he had been one of Chicago's star torpedoes, until a spot of trouble that could not be squared had forced him to jump the Canadian border and thence remove himself from the American continent.

He could hear Jim yelling 'Easy, Jumbo' and he could see Latzy leaping up and down with the improvised chequered flag, but as he clattered past the post he knew already that Jim wasn't watching him any more but glaring down the course towards the beech trees.

Together they walked towards the haymakers, presumably to summon them to their morning break, for Herta was spreading a chequered cloth on the ground and laying out cups and unwrapping food from folded napkins.

The clean transverse section shows numerous medullary rays and altemate bands of bast parenchyma, thus giving it a chequered appearance.

For once in my chequered career I had everything going for me, and I honestly thought I had already beaten the 'big C by mind over matter.

Also, when we are propounding puzzles on the chessboard, it is often well to remember that additional interest may result from "generalizing" for boards containing any number of squares, or from limiting ourselves to some particular chequered arrangement, not necessarily a square.

The floors, I realise, are linoleum, curling up at the skirting boards, and not particularly clean, and the chequered tablecloths are actually vinyl, for ease of wipeability.

Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings.