whist
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
His family - including eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren - visit him often, which he loves, and play cards with him, including whist.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
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
In the foyer, tables had been assembled, and the Young Men were seated about them, playing at faro and whist.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
I wish I could get a house down here, and retire from the pomps and short whists of life, the odd tricks and all the honours!
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
For the privilege of being invited to teas, bridge whists, of being sure of a place in the local social life.
From The Fighting Shepherdess by Lockhart, Caroline
It also meant to keep silent, as in Surrey's "Virgil": "They whisted all, with fixed face intent."
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
Again he found himself in a vortex of dining, whisting, talking, and laughter.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
