diff --git a/.changeset/twenty-keys-divide.md b/.changeset/twenty-keys-divide.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e84058674
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/twenty-keys-divide.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'astro': patch
+---
+
+Fixes a case where failing content entries in `astro check` would not be surfaced
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/cli/check/index.ts b/packages/astro/src/cli/check/index.ts
index c93e3b2f4c..b7e03aa30e 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/cli/check/index.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/cli/check/index.ts
@@ -31,11 +31,7 @@ export async function check(flags: Flags) {
 		// NOTE: In the future, `@astrojs/check` can expose a `before lint` hook so that this works during `astro check --watch` too.
 		// For now, we run this once as usually `astro check --watch` is ran alongside `astro dev` which also calls `astro sync`.
 		const { default: sync } = await import('../../core/sync/index.js');
-		try {
-			await sync(flagsToAstroInlineConfig(flags));
-		} catch (_) {
-			return process.exit(1);
-		}
+		await sync(flagsToAstroInlineConfig(flags));
 	}
 
 	const { check: checker, parseArgsAsCheckConfig } = checkPackage;