Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use trump in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word trump? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The trump suit is clubs if all three succeeded, hearts if two, spades if one or diamonds if no-one fulfilled their contract.
Some players play with only one joker, but use the deuce of spades as permanent second highest trump in the game.
The trump maker leads a spade which player A wins with the ace, becoming the first partner.
In no trump bids, the two of spades resumes its normal function as a spade.
This way you lose the lead and hope to trump with one of your small trumps when your void suit is led.
If the trump suit is lead, and a player is void, but holds a rank trump card, that player must play the rank trump card.
Tricks are played as in Whist, that is, suit must be followed if possible and a player void in the suit led may trump or discard as he chooses.
My trump card is salmon fillets poached in the dishwasher and topped with a brightly flavored cilantro sauce.
If a non-trump is led, and the second player plays a trump, the third player may only player a smaller trump if void in the suit led.
The queen of clubs belongs for all purposes to the trump suit, not to the club suit.
If dealer does the latter, a second round of bidding occurs in which eldest hand has the right to name the trump suit.
The cards of the other suits rank in the normal way from ace high down to two, leaving out the cards of the trump rank.
The winner of the first trick must lead a trump to the second trick if he holds one.
If a trump is led, the other players may play any cards, and if several trumps are played to a trick the last one wins.
For the first round, all clubs are trump and the three remaining Jacks overtrump clubs.
It suggested couch potato culture, where pancake make-up and glitz trump substance.
The player who was dealt the 2 of clubs is not allowed to discard it to the trump pile, since it must be led to the first trick.
The player to the left of the dealer has the choice of playing with the given trump or passing.
In these types the numerals all rank in the same direction, but in the trump suit the normally lowest card is still promoted to second highest.
If there is a trump suit, a player who can follow suit must either follow suit or play a trump if possible.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
And this was a Dawson dance-hall, the trump card in the nightly game of despoliation.
I did my best to make all straight with the lightning conductor, who behaved like the trump he is.
Had they snatched that trump card from their adversaries and were they going to play it?
After this digression let us turn again to amblyopia from disuse, and to the last trump which is played for it.
One trump and a tierce major is too weak, unless the fifth card is a court card.
But at this point the trump card he had been concealing in his sleeve was thrown on the table.
Behind him flaunted the great gonfanon of Spain, and trump and cymbal heralded his approach.
He knew that his opponent was simply playing to gain time, but, after all, he held the trump card.
Yet he realized that if a trump card was to be played it must be then.
And he used his win as his trump card in his interview for a job as credit controller.
A lot of this success has come from full-flavoured Aussie Chardonnay but there is no doubt that the current trump card is Shiraz.
She played her trump card when offering the miners appealing redundancy payments just weeks before Christmas.
Players may continue to try to buy the trump card or even to purchase cards that are face down on the chance that they will be high.
The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whip-poor-will is borne on the rippling wind from over the water.
Tahrir tumbrels trump tepid television turnouts with Fidel Castro-length lectures.
As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel.
I got her through my old friend, Blandly, who has proved himself throughout the most surprising trump.
She had not played her trump card yet, and the time was short.
An hour had elapsed ere that archangel's trump had subsided into tonal nothingness.
An appeal to the rights of liberty and property to trump a right to health care thus seems prima facie dubitable.
Show More Sentences
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
5-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024