How to Use rook in a Sentence

rook

noun

• The program assumed that the two kings would be on opposite sides of the rank controlled by the rook.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• For example, Rhd4 means that the rook on the H file is moving from its starting square to d4.
  — Isaac Aronow, New York Times, 13 June 2022
• Like a master chess player looks over the whole board, reaches forward, and moves a rook one space.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 June 2020
• The rook, for example, doesn’t use tools in the wild but can do so in captivity.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2012
• Instead of sliding past the rook, the rule stated that the king could move two spaces once a game, or like a knight in some variants.
  — Chazz Mair, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
• Kenya puts her finger on a bishop, then reconsiders and moves the rook.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 26 July 2021
• Known also as the Johnny rook, the bird belongs to the falcon family but has the intelligence of the corvids.
  — Katherine A. Powers Washington Post, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• About 10 minutes in, his opponent’s rook had blocked in Rozman’s king.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 12 Mar. 2021
• Like every rook, Okoro didn’t have the benefit of playing in summer league.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020
• The endgame was a complicated setup: Nepomniachtchi had his powerful queen, and Carlsen had a rook, a knight, and two pawns.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2021
• And his lineman Mike McGlinchey mimed, injecting ice into his veins, in a nod to the one of the rook’s previous celebrations.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2023
• How will Okoro benefit from the experience gained as a rook and full offseason of work?
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 July 2021
• The game was more or less even through twenty-two moves, then Carlsen carelessly advanced a pawn on the queenside, weakening his center of the board, and Hou found the perfect rook move to punish him.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• AlphaZero [a chess engine] woke people up to the fact that pushing the side pawns — the rook pawn and the even riskier knight’s pawn — those have more value than humans had realized.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• Bishop learned chess the old-fashioned way, with a family chessboard and by experimenting with the board pieces: pawns, bishops, knights, rooks, queens and kings.
  — David Sharp, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• New for the holiday is the six-piece Checkmate collection, featuring casings shaped and polished to resemble the pawn, knight, bishop, rook and king.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2021
• One of the most notorious puzzles, devised by the mathematician Sir Roger Penrose in 2017, puts stronger black pieces (such as the queen and rooks) on the board, but in awkward positions.
  — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• Leeson imported the Favorite in classic rook rifle calibers.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Feb. 2021
• The best-case scenario for him is an injury opens up a starting spot, otherwise Lamb is likely to be an inconsistently productive fantasy asset as a rook.
  — Cory Bonini, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2020
• But that doesn’t mean the rook can’t contribute starting Week 1. Put Lance into the game in random situations, not necessarily when the opposition expects it.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 June 2021
• The Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the first chess-playing machine, capable of king and rook against king endgames without any human intervention.
  — Gil Press, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• The program assumed that the two kings would be on opposite sides of the rank controlled by the rook.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• For example, Rhd4 means that the rook on the H file is moving from its starting square to d4.
  — Isaac Aronow, New York Times, 13 June 2022
• Like a master chess player looks over the whole board, reaches forward, and moves a rook one space.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 June 2020
• The rook, for example, doesn’t use tools in the wild but can do so in captivity.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2012
• Instead of sliding past the rook, the rule stated that the king could move two spaces once a game, or like a knight in some variants.
  — Chazz Mair, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
• Kenya puts her finger on a bishop, then reconsiders and moves the rook.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 26 July 2021
• Known also as the Johnny rook, the bird belongs to the falcon family but has the intelligence of the corvids.
  — Katherine A. Powers Washington Post, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• About 10 minutes in, his opponent’s rook had blocked in Rozman’s king.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 12 Mar. 2021
• Like every rook, Okoro didn’t have the benefit of playing in summer league.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024