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

And the series opens with four people playing bid whist.

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

‘No, no. My mother said it is a rising eye. But I was to keep whist and mum about it—unless even God has turned away His face. And Cilia ... you promised.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes