Examples of “checkpoint” in a Sentence

noun A location where people or vehicles are stopped for inspection, such as at a border or on a road.

• Guards checked every driver's papers at the checkpoint before letting them through.
• Soldiers manned the checkpoint at the edge of town.
• Traffic backed up for miles at the security checkpoint.

noun In a video game, a saved point that a player can restart from after failing.

• I reached the next checkpoint and finally stopped worrying about losing my progress.
• If you fall off the bridge, the game restarts you at the checkpoint.
• The game saved my progress at the last checkpoint before I died.

noun A point at which the state of a system or database is saved so it can be restored later.

• The database writes a checkpoint every few minutes so data can be restored.
• After the power failure, the engineer rolled the system back to a checkpoint.
• The server crashed, but it recovered from the last checkpoint.