whist
Example Sentences
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They are often held when family and friends gather, get animated and talk smack amid a spades or bid whist card game where jokers and deuces are always wild.
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2024
Love, Peace & Spades is a safe and inclusive space for Black people to enjoy one another and play Uno, bid whist, Tunk, dominoes and spades.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023
Bid whist, for our generation, was the national Black pastime.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022
These college students improved on some of the minor functions of whist in an attempt to keep the game moving, because they often had limited time to play it.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2021
The town was whist and still, for it was Sunday.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
