checkmate
will checkmate
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future tenseof checkmate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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He knew only that the Rendel of this morning had said with a smile, "I am looking forward to the moment when you will checkmate me again."
From The Arbiter A Novel by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell
I must differ from you—not in your wish to see a General Council which might reform the Church, but in your belief that the Frate will checkmate his Holiness.
From Romola by George Eliot
His new scheme is to make out that his enemies were, after all, the true Jacobites; he will checkmate them that way—"in a month, if you please."
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
And you will checkmate in a few moves.
From The Blue Book of Chess Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings by Howard Staunton
They are as injurious as they are false, and they will checkmate the progress of any man or of any people that believes them.
From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
