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

A friendship blossoms thanks to a shared affection for gin rummy, but Jones slowly reveals Fish’s tenderness, the possibility of romance spreading out in front of him.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

On a suit of twos for rummy, he had printed the words, “Will you marry me?”

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Roberta later would take her own three children on similar long educational road trips, as well as regularly touring the world with Rowena while they continued a gin rummy game that reportedly lasted for decades.

From Reuters • Oct. 12, 2020

Then Robin kissed the top of Ivy’s head, and Ivy pulled back and wiped her face with her arm, and they went back to playing rummy.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake