How to Use rook in a Sentence

rook

noun
  • This strategy has been seen among wild jackdaws and wild rooks.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • Like a master chess player looks over the whole board, reaches forward, and moves a rook one space.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 June 2020
  • The rook, for example, doesn’t use tools in the wild but can do so in captivity.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2012
  • But that doesn’t mean the rook can’t contribute starting Week 1. Put Lance into the game in random situations, not necessarily when the opposition expects it.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 June 2021
  • Kenya puts her finger on a bishop, then reconsiders and moves the rook.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 26 July 2021
  • The program assumed that the two kings would be on opposite sides of the rank controlled by the rook.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
  • No thoughts, besides appreciation for the rooks who taunt him from his field.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Game pieces consist of pawns, rooks, bishops, knights, a queen, and a king, and there are different rules about how each piece can move.
    — Julianne Hilmes Bartlett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Instead of sliding past the rook, the rule stated that the king could move two spaces once a game, or like a knight in some variants.
    — Chazz Mair, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Your moves will be mostly predictable, and so will your team’s, because everyone knows roughly how knights and rooks move.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • About 10 minutes in, his opponent’s rook had blocked in Rozman’s king.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The nearly fifty species of crow, which include ravens and rooks, emerged long before human civilization.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Like every rook, Okoro didn’t have the benefit of playing in summer league.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020
  • For example, Rhd4 means that the rook on the H file is moving from its starting square to d4.
    — Isaac Aronow, New York Times, 13 June 2022
  • Some run in the straight lines followed by a rook, some follow the diagonals of a bishop, and others hold off opponents like a pawn.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
  • How will Okoro benefit from the experience gained as a rook and full offseason of work?
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 July 2021
  • Jewelry sizing and placement need to be super-precise to emulate the illusion of a true rook or snug.
    — Marianne Mychaskiw, Allure, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Can a massive dragon in the rook, like Vhagar, be worth two in the air (say, Vermax and Moondancer)?
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • Look no further than the faux options, which are creatively placed piercings that give the look of a biblically accurate snug or rook.
    — Marianne Mychaskiw, Allure, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Known also as the Johnny rook, the bird belongs to the falcon family but has the intelligence of the corvids.
    — Katherine A. Powers Washington Post, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • Rest of the rooks The Broncos rookies beyond Barron and Harvey should be heavily in the mix.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In chess, which has a far smaller grid, a rook can move only horizontally and a bishop only diagonally, but Go pieces can be placed on any open space.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
  • And his lineman Mike McGlinchey mimed, injecting ice into his veins, in a nod to the one of the rook’s previous celebrations.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2023
  • But every actor in the transfer market, whether queen, rook, or pawn, has to protect and maximise their own interests as far as possible, because that is what the market demands.
    — Mark Critchley, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • New for the holiday is the six-piece Checkmate collection, featuring casings shaped and polished to resemble the pawn, knight, bishop, rook and king.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Typically, a snug involves a piercing on the inner ridge of cartilage in your ear, while a rook is a piercing in the second-highest cartilage ridge of your ear (above the daith and tragus).
    — Marianne Mychaskiw, Allure, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The best-case scenario for him is an injury opens up a starting spot, otherwise Lamb is likely to be an inconsistently productive fantasy asset as a rook.
    — Cory Bonini, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The game was more or less even through twenty-two moves, then Carlsen carelessly advanced a pawn on the queenside, weakening his center of the board, and Hou found the perfect rook move to punish him.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • The faux snug pairs a conch with a helix or double-helix piercing, while the faux rook is one piercing in the upper inner cartilage with a dangle or drop-style jewelry to mimic the look of a traditional rook piercing.
    — Marianne Mychaskiw, Allure, 24 Jan. 2026
  • But this isn’t the Queen’s Gambit, and at 4 and 6, Bluey and Bingo aren’t interested in prawns (pawns), castle heads (rooks), or pom pom elves (bishops).
    — Hannah Silverman, Parents, 15 Nov. 2025

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