checkmate
have checkmated
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present perfectof checkmate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Twice Jack's queen was in Bluebell's grasp uncaptured, and he could at any time have checkmated her, had he been as attentive to the variations of the game as to those of her countenance.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
“You might have checkmated me, last move, Enrico,” said Isabel.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
But before the company could resume their seats, his Royal Highness exclaimed, "Another of the same, if you please, to the Author of Marmion—and now, Walter, my man, I have checkmated you for ance."
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
They have checkmated the exploiter if they could, as they did checkmate Napoleon, but they have not always, or even usually, looked upon him as a wrong doer.
From Religion and the War by Various
Yes," was the calm reply, "I have checkmated you, count.
From The Coquette's Victim Everyday Life Library No. 1 by Charlotte M. Brame
