rummy

Example Sentences

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In his Jeeves stories, Bertie Wooster is briefly employed by a magazine called Milady's Boudoir, which was housed "in one of those rummy streets in the Covent Garden neighbourhood".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

Without much warning, these adults will suddenly start speaking in a cartoonish voice: Eric turns rummy as a mannered Brit named Charles, while Rachel murmurs as “Moopie-Moopie.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

We play gin rummy together by candlelight after dinner.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

"She always thinks of others first, and she stays positive no matter what, even when I beat her at our favorite game of gin rummy!"

From Fox News • Dec. 28, 2021

This was used as a kitchen and relaxation room, where the Company could read or gossip or play Mah- Jongg, the game with tiles that is something like the demons’ card game of gin rummy.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep