vehicle checkpoint
Frequency: 7.09.5 per million words
a checkpoint specifically for checking vehicles
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Examples (10)
- Every car was stopped at the temporary vehicle checkpoint.
- The military set up a vehicle checkpoint on the main road leading into the city.
- Drivers are advised to have their identification ready when approaching the vehicle checkpoint.
- Security was tightened at every vehicle checkpoint following the threat.
- We were delayed for an hour at a vehicle checkpoint near the border.
- The new regulations require a thorough search at each vehicle checkpoint.
- Police officers were carefully inspecting documents at the vehicle checkpoint.
- Passing through the vehicle checkpoint was quicker than we expected.
- A mobile vehicle checkpoint has been established to catch drunk drivers.
- The suspect's car was identified as it passed through a vehicle checkpoint.