How to Use chessboard in a Sentence

chessboard

noun
  • Soon, the guards gave the men a chessboard.
    — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Woody filmed the scene out in the desert on a giant chessboard.
    — Mike Sacks, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • At this point, knights and bishops would be moved on the chessboard.
    — Michael Krepon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Trump shows no signs of getting up from the global chessboard.
    — Sam Jacobs, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But this first-round chessboard did not unfold in their favor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Hall is fine, as the script moves him around the chessboard feverishly.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
  • Then Tate surveyed the chessboard.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • If the field was a chessboard, Smith would be Zimmer’s queen.
    — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Whose moves on the chessboard left them exposed and who has her bases fully covered?
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The same white crown worn for the video could be seen in a chessboard dance battle toward the end of the show.
    — Daniela Avila, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • One strategy is to bring a chessboard to a busy street and wait for someone to play with you.
    — Kasley Killam, Scientific American, 21 May 2019
  • The bots -- which look like washing machines on wheels -- move on top of a grid, like pieces on a chessboard.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Then, the turquoise walls, chessboard floors, and blue Art Deco tiles.
    — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
  • And for those of you who think this pic isn't Malik, his chessboard tattoo doesn't lie.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 6 June 2018
  • So light a fire, make a drink, and set up the chessboard—Beth Harmon would be proud.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Sam Levinson has taken one piece off the chessboard ahead of the big finale.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 May 2026
  • This is true to an extent, but Flynn had placed himself on the chessboard.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The decorative spires rising above the roof bring to mind a chessboard set with rooks and pawns.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
  • Once again proving, there are no safe moves on the Middle East chessboard.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The series was a surprise hit, and a bored and locked-down viewership spurred a spike in chessboard sales.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 7 May 2024
  • Loads of the characters had been scattered across the global chessboard.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The chessboard has greatly shifted since Musk made his bid on April 5.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 May 2022
  • In between is a huge chessboard for honing skills of strategy and guile while catching a tan.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But then an acquaintance is discovered facedown on a chessboard, the back of his head gone.
    — Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • When Matty starts this mission, people are sort of players on a chessboard.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The double order is emerging, as the masters of the chessboard, willy-nilly, make room for the web.
    — Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2016
  • There's also Croatia; the players sport a red and white chessboard on their chests.
    — Steve Almasy, CNN, 13 June 2018
  • At the end, Beth sits down in a Moscow park across from an old Russian man and a chessboard.
    — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Most of the pilot is spent setting up the chessboard and introducing the key players.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Afterward, the man and his son noticed a chessboard in the establishment and played a game.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 10 June 2025

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