Sentence examples for king mate from inspiring English sources

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld there are Twelfth Night customs, involving a man who "finds a special bean in his tucker, oho, everyone says 'you're king mate' and he thinks 'this is a bit of all right' only next thing he's legging it over the snow with a dozen other buggers chasing him with holy sickles so's the earth'll come to life again and all this snow will go away".

That way, when the king mates with a daughter, he's effectively still having sex with the queen.

The story of a real lion king, his mate and their cubs unfolds in Botswana's Kalahari Desert, recorded day by day in the stunning photography of Tim Leversedge.

The exception is that two knights and a king cannot mate a lone king.

Sacramento Kings team-mates Matt Barnes and DeMarcus Cousins have been sued by two people over an alleged assault at a New York nightclub early on Monday morning.

Instead, 20 Keffectivelyely put his king in a mating net.

Nakamura resigned because he had no good way to stop f7, snaring his king in a mating net.

Instead, Igonin just methodically built up an attack against Anand and then concluded the game by trapping Anand's king in a mating net.

A queen sacrifice by the Norwegian caught the challenger's king in a mating net, allowing the champion to finish off the championship defence in style.

The end of a game in the European championship between Mikhail Krasenkow of Poland and Baadur Jobava of Georgia was also a spectacle, with Jobava ensnaring Krasenkow's king in a mating net.

Then Carlsen offered to surrender his strongest piece to ensnare Karjakin's king in a mating net, a coup de grâce all the more breathtaking given the faster time control of rapid play.