“I have nine apples in my basket.”

“On that day, representatives from each country's business community presented their fifty-one detailed recommendations to an impressive trinational ninesome.”

“As they stood before a staid cast-iron gate across the street from where they work, they made as toothsome a ninesome as could ever be glimpsed anywhere.”

“If no one has all the nines, a new hand of 7 cards each is dealt from the remaining undealt part of the pack.”

“They just need those pocket aces or ace-king or even a pair of nines as often as you seem to get them.”

“The meld must have at least two cards of the same natural rank, such as two nines, three kings, four fives, etc.”

“Scott and Dankworth were blown away by the melodic lines of modern jazz and its soulful use of chord substitutions, ninths and flattened fifths.”