fluffed

Example Sentences

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Note that if East had instead led a spade, South would have ruffed in his hand and sluffed dummy’s low diamond.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2014

Declarer ruffed in the dummy and sluffed her last club to end with an overtrick.

From New York Times • May 30, 2014

South ruffed in the dummy and sluffed a diamond from her hand.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2012

On his next lead, Hamilton sluffed his last heart and ruffed in the dummy.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2011

The instructor, working on the knowledge that his students either had taken it before and flunked it, or had already had it in high school, sluffed over the preliminaries and got right down to translation.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith