CHECKMATE in a Sentence

Learn CHECKMATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for CHECKMATE, such as:

1. I've been checkmated in London.
2. Game is over, but Obama is too inexperienced a player to realize that checkmate is now unavoidable.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHECKMATE
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checkmate
 n.  position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released; utter defeat; complete victory
Classic Sentence:
1  I've been checkmated in London.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
Example Sentence:
1  Game is over, but Obama is too inexperienced a player to realize that checkmate is now unavoidable.