On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Rook. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as castle or scam and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Rook in a sentence
Related words
Rook meaning
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
Synonyms of Rook
Using Rook
- The main meaning on this page is: A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. | A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays. | A bad deal; a rip-off.
- Useful related words include: castle, mulct, scam, defraud.
- In the example corpus, rook often appears in combinations such as: the rook, rook and, and rook.
Context around Rook
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rook
- In this selection, "rook" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, promoted, versus, correct, dragon, behind and accordingly stand out and add context to how "rook" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a promoted rook dragon king and a white rook s being. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rook" sits close to words such as adjudged, aggravating and alamos, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rook
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The player from Orissa prepared for a beautiful combination and, on the 21st move, sacrificed the rook. (17 words)
A sudden Queen, Rook, and pawn attack from Joshi ensnared Shariff’s King with a looming checkmate. (17 words)
Carroll enjoyed world traveling and occasionally using his skills to play card games such as blackjack and rook. (18 words)
In Rome from the early 17th century until the late 19th century, the rook might be placed on any square up to and including the king's square, and the king might be moved to any square on the other side of the rook. (44 words)
A king and a rook is sufficient material to checkmate an opposing lone king, although it's a little harder than checkmating with king and queen; thus the rook's distinction as a major piece above the knight and bishop. (40 words)
The logical form can be had by the bouncing of a ball (for example, twenty bounces might communicate a white rook's being on the king's rook 1 square). (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Promoted rook A promoted rook ("dragon king", 龍王 Ryūō) moves as a rook or as a king, but not as both on the same turn.
A king and a rook is sufficient material to checkmate an opposing lone king, although it's a little harder than checkmating with king and queen; thus the rook's distinction as a major piece above the knight and bishop.
Castling main Castling consists of moving the king two squares towards a rook, then placing the rook on the other side of the king, adjacent to it.
Comparison to other pieces Versus rook A rook is generally worth about two pawns more than a bishop (see Chess piece relative value and the exchange ).
If one file is particularly important, a player might advance one rook on it, then position the other rook behind doubling the rooks.
If the player completes a two-square king move without touching a rook, the player must move the correct rook accordingly if castling in that direction is legal.
In handicap games where odds of a rook are given, the player giving odds may still castle with the absent rook, moving only the king.
In Rome from the early 17th century until the late 19th century, the rook might be placed on any square up to and including the king's square, and the king might be moved to any square on the other side of the rook.
Other more complicated endings are classified according to the pieces on board other than kings, e.g. " rook and pawn versus rook endgame ".
Rb1+ wins white's rook, because the king is forced to move away from the check, thereby exposing the rook to attack (a skewer ).
The chariot is sometimes known as the rook by English-speaking players, since it is like the rook in Western chess.
The logical form can be had by the bouncing of a ball (for example, twenty bounces might communicate a white rook's being on the king's rook 1 square).
Carroll enjoyed world traveling and occasionally using his skills to play card games such as blackjack and rook.
Paperwork found there about skip hire led officers to search an address in Rook Street, Nelson, where they found equipment used to grow cannabis.
Rook Kast could have brought back the old ways of Mandalore as a way of atoning for failing her people, especially when they needed her most.
Salt Spring LCC candidates who have declared early in the race are, from left, Gayle Baker, Earl Rook and Brian Webster.
The player from Orissa prepared for a beautiful combination and, on the 21st move, sacrificed the rook.
A sudden Queen, Rook, and pawn attack from Joshi ensnared Shariff’s King with a looming checkmate.
Fixed a rare issue where Emmrich did not lead Rook to the next task in his recruitment Where the Dead Must Go quest.
Hakobyan attempted to use a desperado tactic to indirectly safeguard his own rook, but he overlooked a fatal intermezzo.
Common combinations with rook
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the rook 22×
- rook and 13×
- and rook 11×
- rook or 5×
- rook is 5×
- rook on 4×
- of rook 4×
- rook to 4×
- as rook 3×
- rook moves 3×