Synonyms

1. checkers

Sentence Examples

1. Jake thought it strange that Mr Hoody drank two-thirds of his pint in a couple of greedy draughts and more unsettling still that he followed Jake out of the pub.
2. Back in the gardens, she found Prometheus sitting upon a stool, playing draughts with another Titan.
3. In this time, she might again talk to her friend, might share long conversations and games of draughts.
4. Weston was afraid of draughts for the young people in that passage and neither Emma nor the gentlemen could tolerate the prospect of being miserably crowded at supper.
5. She would linger on Ogygia and desperately hope they could perfect their draughts before the Olympians found them.
6. Deep, drowning draughts of affection swept over her, making her feel cherished.
7. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
8. The vagabond snatched them up all eagerly and tore into the food, only pausing to wash it down with copious draughts from the flask.
9. Mademoiselle de Villefort prepared all the cooling draughts which Madame de Saint-Méran took, and Madame de Saint-Méran is dead.
10. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.