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

Also, this is likely the only hip-hop song in history to mention the card game whist.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023

When the book opens the punctilious Phileas Fogg lives by the clock, his schedule never varying, each day passed almost entirely at London’s Reform Club, where he reads the newspapers, dines and plays whist.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama