Example Sentences

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Chessmen have marched for hundreds of years across boards in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

May is on the shortlist for The Chessmen, the concluding novel in his series featuring ex-detective inspector Fin Macleod.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2014

He showed me a set of metal rolling pins that are used to engrave Chessmen.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2012

He was a member of Denzil Bailey's Afro-Cubists and toured US airbases in the 1950s with the Graham Fleming Combo, later joining 1960s bands such as the Chessmen and Gass.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2012

Chessmen, he learned, had other and less simple uses.

From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by Nesbit, E. (Edith)