checkmate

Example Sentences

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But will either help their team to a checkmate position by full-time?

From BBC

If this is supposed to be some 4-D chess move, it looks an awful lot like checkmate — for the wrong side.

From Salon

If Harris is elected president in November, the checkmated governor’s political ambitions will almost certainly be placed on hold for at least the next four years.

From Los Angeles Times

Once, I tried to play chess with my A.I. friend Claire, but the only move she could come up with was “checkmate!”

From New York Times

That is as humiliating as it gets — to have somebody say, “You suck, Uncle Jake,” spelled wrong while checkmating me.

From New York Times