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How to use rook in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Rook means a European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. Example: “A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.”

Examples of rook by meaning

nounA trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.

  • Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook.2007, Malcolm Bull, Keith Lockhart, Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, page 174

verbTo cheat or swindle.

  • They rook one shockingly at these places.1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
  • Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 311

More sentences with rook

  • A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.From the entry handicap
  • You want to bring the rook and then start pushing your pawns.From the entry bring
  • A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.From the entry sideways
  • She beat me with knight odds but lost with rook odds.From the entry odds
  • He spread avicide in his field to try to kill some of the rooks.From the entry avicide
  • After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.From the entry complete
  • If you move there, you'll hang your rook.From the entry hang
  • The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession.From the entry move
  • Rooks become much more important in the endgame.From the entry endgame
  • First, Esipenko dropped a full rook, which went unpunished as Sarana had probably premoved his reply.2019 June 12, Peter Doggers, “Junior Speed Chess: Sarana Beats Esipenko”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022. From the entry premove
  • Then came the battle with the rooks, who will do anything for a crawful of maize.1960, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman - Volume 57, page 309. From the entry crawful
  • Wide-eyed, staring up into the darkness, he pondered the problem of giving Babe a well-deserved rooking.1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 14, column 1. From the entry rooking
  • This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook.2020, Andrew Soltis, How to Swindle in Chess, Batsford Books, →ISBN. From the entry book
  • There was a lark in the sky, a chatter of rooks, and the swoop of swallows arrived to-day.1903, William Babington Maxwell, Fabulous Fancies, G. Richards, page 161. From the entry chatter
  • The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig.1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 5, in Lud-in-the-Mist. From the entry grig
  • Let’s face it, O’Brien was rooked — rooked! — when NBC did the takesy-backsy thing with “The Tonight Show,” and he didn’t stint on joking about that debacle Sunday.2010 June 8, Kristina Dorsey, “Off the air, on the road, Conan has his moments”, in The Day, volume 129, number 342, New London, Conn.…. From the entry takesy-backsy

Meaning of rook

  1. noun A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
  2. noun A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
  3. noun A bad deal; a rip-off.

Full definition of rook

Questions about rook in a sentence

How do you use rook in a sentence?
Rook is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.”
What is a short sentence with rook?
“They rook one shockingly at these places.”
What does rook mean?
Rook means a European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rook (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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