Drawing position in chess any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check

Usage examples of stalemate.

I will kill this Mong they send against me and there will at least be a chance to break this stalemate.

The tracked, armored, motorized forts called barrels were the best thing anyone had yet found for breaking the deadly stalemate of trench warfare.

The war was stalemated, which meant the superior forces of the Dons were slowly grinding the Republicans down.

It was a fight which continued for almost a year, with politics, finances, regional pride, fundamental ideas and the great drives of the space age intermingled, and in the end a stalemate existed between Earth orbit and lunar orbit.

With the fleet outside of Portobelo, the buccaneers and the bullion inside and the Iron Fort in between, there was stalemate, unless they were prepared to carry the bullion over the track back to the Rio Guanche, and meet the fleet there, using the boats that had remained.

Most were sheltering behind trees, just as the Yankees were, which meant that the firefight was settling into a stalemate, but soon the Legion must withdraw to its railbed trench, and Starbuck was determined that the retreat should be made in good order.

Stalemated, Sennett had figured that silence might drive Tuohey or his minions to recontact Robbie on their own.

It brings us to the debacle at Ostia, the stalemate in Crete, the inviolability of every pirate bolt-hole from Gades in Spain to Gaza in Palestina!

A stalemate between the two male beings seemed to have occurred, both beings locking their original grasps in place.

So in the Stormberg district, as at the Modder River, the same humiliating and absurd position of stalemate was established.

Eventually, at the end of our exercises, which may take only a little while, though conceivably they could last until dawn (and in such a stalemated case, the closers would win by default), the matter will be decided.

Stalemates get boring after a while, though, and every so often, somebody felt the need to commit a few atrocities to offend his opponent.

A woman had come out of nowhere to simultaneously stalemate the two greatest chess masters in the world.

Omar's wife wasn't the type to bury herself on an isolated Florida chicken farm, so they were stalemated.

But, paradoxically, the electronic warfare, because of the increase in emissive power, led to a stalemate here, too: lasers powerful enough to pierce the defenses yielded not intelligence but destruction.