How to Use checking account in a Sentence

checking account

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  • Amazon allows for shoppers to pay for purchases via checking account.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2018
  • More than half don’t have a total of $1,000 in their savings and checking accounts combined.
    — David French, National Review, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Most involved debt collection, credit cards, checking accounts or credit reporting.
    — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
  • JPMorgan Chase might start charging customers for checking accounts.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 8 July 2024
  • Applying for a Safe Harbor checking account is an invasive procedure.
    — Robb Mandelbaum, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Consumers struggling with holiday spending hangovers may want to reconsider resorting to overdrafts on their checking accounts.
    — Ann Carrns, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • An eye-popping 1,100-point drop in the stock market had individual investors scurrying to call their brokers, or log on to their computers to check accounts.
    — Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The next day the two went to a local bank and opened a checking account in the student’s name.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2020
  • And I’ve-a got, like, five coins in my checking account.
    — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • He was left with $1,700 in his checking account and no idea what to do next.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2023
  • On July 20, Bank of the West launched a 1% for the Planet checking account.
    — Kassondra Cloos, Outside Online, 30 July 2020
  • Our guess is a hell of a lot more than any of us will ever have in our checking accounts.
    — refinery29.com, 25 June 2018
  • And then direct the IRS to put the rest in your savings or checking account or elsewhere.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Moore picked him back up from work Friday morning, and then took him to a bank to open a checking account.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 19 June 2020
  • Joe, for lack of a better name, has $1.25 million in his checking account.
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The first time my checking account was ever over $3,000 was during that job.
    — Charlotte Cowles, New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Learn how to compare costs when choosing the right bank to open savings and checking accounts.
    — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 10 Apr. 2018
  • After installing the App, and while still talking with them on the phone, her checking account had $3,200 taken out of it.
    — cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
  • If your checking account doesn’t have much money, save it.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Even for people who have checking accounts, low-balance fees can take a toll, as can ATM fees, the report added.
    — Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
  • These deposits leave you with less available cash in your checking account that you might be tempted to spend.
    — Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Of the spending cut by veto, about $555 million was from the general fund, the state's main checking account.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2019
  • AmEx launched a new Kabbage checking account for that market last month.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 23 July 2021
  • For its Advantage Plus checking account, the fee is $12.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • We’ve been told over and over that the only way out of trauma is by burning through our dwindling checking accounts.
    — Kristin Iversen, refinery29.com, 23 Mar. 2020
  • But checking accounts often serve to get customers in the digital door so that banks can sell them loans.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Her boyfriend has already stolen $200 from her checking account since his release from jail.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
  • One of the first financial accounts a consumer opens is a checking account.
    — Peter Fisher, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • My office used to keep about $1 billion in our checking account to meet the expenditures.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
  • Falling rates can help banks in the sense that customers will slow the rotation out of checking accounts and into higher-yielding instruments like CDs or money market funds.
    — Hugh Son, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024

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