Sentence examples for played checkers from inspiring English sources

Old men played checkers in the shade.

We played checkers a lot, and she was very, very competitive.

"Did you say you played checkers with Ornette Coleman?" I asked.

Harun al-Rashid was the first chess-playing caliph; Baghdadis also played checkers and backgammon.

"People don't get me!" she said one night while we played checkers on her iPod.

To keep her father's spirits up, she played checkers with him ("I beat him once") and watched Mets games.

Sergei was found by the police, who played checkers with him at a station house until Trotsky's wife showed up.

On the river bank, Arab men played checkers with the kind of intensity usually reserved for international chess matches in Reykjavik.

Evest Azano, 38, an immigrant from Ethiopia and a mother of six, had stepped out of the bomb shelter under an apartment building for some air while children played checkers inside.

A sort of colony of the programs, each slightly different from all the others, played checkers against one another -- quite ineptly at first -- and chronic losers were killed off.

He had told me that he always did that, just as he always played checkers, on Saturday mornings, with a crony of his father's out in the War Veterans' Home.