certified check

Example Sentences

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But before they can kidnap her and run away with a certified check, Warbucks gets suspicious and calls up his pal at the FBI — director J. Edgar Hoover, naturally.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2021

Wait, customers could avoid the wire transfer fee if they used a certified check but not if they used a cashier’s check?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2021

So I trust I can expect a $100,000 certified check to be overnighted to me care of this newspaper?

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2018

The board required that the fine be paid by cashier’s check, bank check or certified check.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2017

At the end of the second day, T. F. Davies, chairman of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, put a $5,000 certified check in an envelope and airmailed it to Al Ulbrickson.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown