Checkmate has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Etymologically, checkmate means "the king is dead". However, the king has not "died" in the game of chess for a long time. In fact, the king is the only piece that cannot even be captured, although checkmate finishes the game and, strictly speaking, can be considered as a "death" for the king. | |
| 2. | Two fat men trying to pass through a narrow doorway are in checkmate. | |
| 3. | Checkmate! | |
| 4. | Checkmate. | |
| 5. | Perhaps we are all chess pieces for a Greater Power who is trying to checkmate evil. | |
| 6. | Tom looked at me triumphantly and said, "Checkmate." | |
| 7. | You'll be checkmate in three moves. | |
| 8. | Checkmate, atheists. | |
| 9. | Only the king cannot be captured. The imprisonment of a king, that is, checkmate, means the end of the game. | |
| 10. | "How did you like that, dear friend," said Tom with a smile, "this checkmate that I gave you with my queen?" - Mary was shocked at first. Would she have missed something? But she soon smiled too and replied, "Well, what would you think if I captured your queen with my knight?" And having moved the knight, she removed the queen from the board. |