pinochle

Example Sentences

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Whatever the task — from roasting peanuts for his grandfather’s pinochle buddies to building a tool shed from scratch — it had to be done right.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022

He spends much of his time watching any one of his six grandkids or playing pinochle and dominoes.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

Neil Reamann and Jerry Johnson, both of Bismarck, are military veterans, longtime friends and pinochle partners but they couldn’t disagree more on who should hold the Senate seat.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2018

Compared with Y.A., prison was a holiday: he was put in the general population, and he had a TV in his cell, he was playing horseshoes and pinochle, he had a job.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

He’d started eating pinochle cards like potato chips.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan