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Meanings of rook in English
Piece in standard shogi; promotes to dragon; moves any number of squares in an orthogonal direction.
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Examples for "comes"
1
With that cherished right to vote, however, comes a great personal responsibility.
2
The question comes out colder than he means: 'Upon what possible inducement?'
3
A new immigration act comes into effect today introducing sweeping new powers.
4
Of course, it's only a crisis when it comes to government funding.
5
This project comes ahead of the new school year, scheduled for September.
1
Donald Trump: the madman in his castle Read more Another example: banks.
2
Hundreds of years ago before the Children of Satan destroyed his castle.
3
The great men sat in the castle and thought about the problem.
4
Of course, I know my way around the castle a bit now.
5
One day, Sir Marhaus came across the sea to King Mark's castle.
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However, the tower blocks resonate strongly with people in former communist countries.
2
Wei said carefully, Yesterday we reviewed the practical value of the tower.
3
The Welsh Government has asked social landlords to test tower block cladding.
4
I need to let the tower know which flight plan is operative.
5
I've got an idea; we'll try and build a Tyrathca tower tomorrow.
1
Therefore, rAAV stocks produced using these protocols are contaminated with helper adenovirus.
2
Conclusions: rFgRab10 protein exerts profound influences on various functions of goat PBMCs.
3
For all words in which the letter r appeared I substituted another.
4
He said his company will no longer supply to Toys 'R' Us.
5
Toys 'R' Us did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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I asked the rector, and he said, Yes, how did you know?
2
Early in the morning the rector came to me at the inn.
3
The dear rector of course would marry them in this simple manner.
4
No voice was raised to blame the rector; the bishop kept silence.
5
The air changed with the arrival of the new rector, the Rev.
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But the brave marquess stood almost alone, save his faithful chamberlain, Solier.
2
A marquess, however, was outside his ken, and the information was wasted.
3
He caught the baleful glare of the marquess and gratefully scurried away.
4
The marquess and his wife decamped instead to another wedding in Hampshire.
5
This marquess died in London in 1667, and was buried in Raglan Church.
Usage of rook in English
1
And that word, like 'rook', has its origins in the word 'rock'.
2
Unlike the rook, crow and magpie mentioned the woodpigeon is good eating.
3
Obviously there must be a rook in every row and every column.
4
Up to yesterday I had never shot a rook in my life.
5
A rook was picked up and slammed down, taking Matthew's second knight.
6
Yet a few minutes more: he takes her rook and checks again.
7
The Bills were equally rude to the rook once the game began.
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I found a rook on the library roof, though, she went on.
9
Its flight is heavy and slow, like that of an English rook.
10
And on b3, he'd have been in check to rook and king.
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His last rook is before me now, as I pencil these lines.
12
No rook's path over the chessboard can exceed this number of moves.
13
Elfride grew flurried, and placed her queen on his remaining rook's file.
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She would have been under threat by the white rook on b5.
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The rook could, for example, have taken another black piece on b5.
16
Maybe, we said, the rook had captured another black piece on b5.
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