check it out

idiom

—used to direct someone's attention to something

Check it out—they've got that new book in stock.

Examples of check it out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Invite a friend, coworker, or family member to check it out with you. —

Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 May 2024 Would calling it a comedy lead more people to check it out? —

Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 May 2024 The Old Farmer's Almanac details specific moonrise times for different ZIP codes across the U.S. The moon will be below the horizon in the U.S. at the time of peak illumination, so the Farmer's Almanac suggests spectators check it out on Wednesday or Thursday night instead. —

Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 22 May 2024 So go check it out when you're done listening to this podcast, which is now. —

Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 May 2024 When news broke on a Wednesday night of the arrests at Columbia, one of my editors asked me to check it out. —

Edmund Lee, New York Times, 3 May 2024 Knight and McGee head in to check it out and are momentarily startled to see a human-sized green-skinned alien, which turns out to be a dummy belonging to another dummy: Galactic Watch Society radio operator Nestor Quinn (Tommy Snider). —

Sara Netzley, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024 But the Aiden Brewer is the brand’s first electric coffee maker of any kind, and founder Jake Miller swung by the Bon Appétit test kitchen to give us a chance to check it out. —

Noah Kaufman, Bon Appétit, 12 Apr. 2024 The three of them, along with a post-oral-surgery Kong, head back down to check it out. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024

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