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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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CHECKMATE
checkmate
 v.  place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
 n.  a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
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.