Sentence examples for rook in from inspiring English sources

"I've seen games where he's dropped his rook in, like, six moves," Christopher says of Ray between bites of melon.

The rook in question is a crow (corvidae) (Letters picture, 26 January, et al), as are ravens, jackdaws, jays, magpies and choughs.

That might also explain her decision to play 10... Re5, putting the rook in the middle of the board where it could easily be harassed.

McShane played the last part of the game flawlessly, and Carlsen resigned; his bishop would have been no match for McShane's rook in the endgame.

He was pleased with the way that he had sacrificed a knight, and then a rook, in order to gain a position.

Then in December, Ahmed will join the most successful film franchise ever, playing Bodhi Rook in the new Star Wars movie.

In fact his book has interesting things to say about all seven breeding representatives of the corvid family that exist in Britain, and celebrates rooks in particular.

During the last two months some interest has been excited in this town by the establishment of a colony of rooks in the trees in a small garden at the top of King-street, belonging to Mrs Halls.

Childhood is recreated in a tone of naive wonder: a "glossy parliament" of rooks in the treetops, the bud of a poppy with its "secret, scarlet, creased and frilly flower-flesh".

In "The Man in the Wooden Hat," when Sir Edward and his wife are old, and she thinks, yet again, about leaving, she spots him watching the rooks in the garden as she plants tulip bulbs.

en.chateauversailles.fr One of Scotland's most seductive folkloric haunts, the turreted fortress has more historical ghosts than rooks in a rookery – nearly all of them connected to treachery, witchcraft and cruelty.