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Example sentences for "aces"

Lexicographically close words:
acephalous; acequia; acerbity; acerca; acero; acetabular; acetabulum; acetaldehyde; acetanilid; acetate
  1. The remaining ones are shuffled and cut and thirteen again dealt; the aces are withdrawn as before, and again shuffled, cut and dealt.

  2. On examining them, you will find that there are three aces among them, announcing good news; but, as they are at some distance from each other, that the tidings may be some time before they arrive.

  3. If in these three deals all four aces make their appearance, it is supposed that the wish will be granted.

  4. Should the four aces (in the last deal) turn up without another card, the wish is supposed to be sure, and to come at once.

  5. If all the aces come at the first deal, the answer is taken to be in the highest degree favorable.

  6. These are added to the four aces and the nine of spades.

  7. The plates at the end show the Trumps Major and the Aces of each suit.

  8. The sevens ascend to kings, the sixes descend to aces (Rule).

  9. During the deal, the four aces of different suits must be placed in their allotted spaces as they appear.

  10. They are to consist of the four aces and four kings of different suits, the aces ascending in sequence to kings, the kings descending in sequence to aces.

  11. During the deal, aces as they turn up are placed in the spaces reserved.

  12. These are the foundations, the aces ascending in sequence to kings, the kings descending to aces (Rule I).

  13. PLAY Withdraw from the pack and place in horizontal line above, four kings and four aces of different suits.

  14. All the aces as they appear are to be placed in one packet in the M underneath the knaves.

  15. Take from the Bouquet and from the Garden any aces or other suitable cards (Rule I) and play them.

  16. The eight kings are the foundations, which ascend through aces to queens (Rule I).

  17. The eight aces are the foundation cards, and are to ascend in sequence to kings.

  18. These aces are built on in sequence and suit up to kings.

  19. The foundations will consist of four aces and four kings of different suits, the aces ascending in sequence to kings, the kings descending to aces (Rule I).

  20. PLAY Take from the pack the eight aces and the eight kings.

  21. The foundation cards are four aces of different suits.

  22. The eight aces form the foundation cards and ascend in sequence to queens (Rule I).

  23. If the holder of carte blanche hold four aces and wins the first trick, he can declare his aces.

  24. Aces and tens must be scored as soon as won, and not at the end of the hand.

  25. Finally, each player counts his tricks for the aces and tens they may contain, unless (as is often done) they are scored at the time.

  26. But we don't claim to be the equal of a lot of the clever aces now strafing the Boche along our American sector.

  27. Some of those opposed to the Americans were well known aces who had gained a great reputation, having brought down scores of British and French planes.

  28. But some decks have the aces stripped from the ends, the kings from the sides.

  29. The aces stripped from the ends, the kings from the sides.

  30. It is a simple matter for the dealer to draw or strip out as many aces as he wants, stack them on the bottom of the pack as he shuffles the cards, and draw them from the bottom whenever he wants them.

  31. When the cards are shuffled the aces protrude a trifle over the edges of the other cards.

  32. Deftly she laid out the four aces beside the four deuces, the four kings beside the four queens.

  33. Unlike pokah, it's perfectly legitimate to scratch the aces with yo' fingah nail.

  34. The aces in that deck were marked in the cornahs with thumb-nail scratches.

  35. He had a pair of aces in sight--a formidable hand--and if his hole card was also an ace, Kid Wolf had not a chance in the world.

  36. I have two hands heah that can turn up twelve lead aces fo' a show-down.

  37. A man with a pair of kings compelling three aces to see before the draw!

  38. He didn't know what Schultz held, but he raised and raised until he made Schultz squeal, and Schultz held three aces all the time.

  39. Since he himself held three aces he knew he had Lyte, because he played Lyte for threes, and, necessarily, they would have to be smaller threes.

  40. Another said, 'He beat me out of my wages playing draw poker with a cold deck, and the aces up his sleeve.

  41. The deakin that was with Ma got the jack of spades and three aces and a deuce, and Ma got some nine spots and a king of hearts, and Ma nearly fainted, cause she didn't get a better hand, I spose.

  42. The beholders all this while thinking that there lye foure aces on the table, are greatly abused, and will maruell at the transformation.

  43. The devil’s in the cards, said Sam, four aces and not a single trump.

  44. You select four of them, and, as you ought to recollect, the three kings and three aces were amongst them.

  45. The four aces will count a hundred, for example.

  46. All the court cards and aces were cut on the slant at the top, so as to prevent them being quite straight, as in figure 20, but much less so in reality than is here represented.

  47. In finishing your counting, you put the three kings and the three aces on these six cards, which brings it to a hundred and twenty-three.

  48. The Greek, in this way, marks all the aces and high cards in any of the suits.

  49. The Aces found themselves elbowed out by the Kings.

  50. Your three aces amount to nothing, as we're not playing the brelan.

  51. He was fast, lightning fast, but those two air aces had been trained to throttle lightning on the loose.

  52. The two air aces saluted smartly and waited for the senior officer to leave.

  53. And then, when neither of the air aces were able to speak, he got up from his table, came over to theirs and bowed gravely.

  54. The man came over to their table, and the two air aces gave their orders in accordance with the short list of items on the menu.

  55. The four-card draw yielded a better crop, aces up, and with a sense of disappointment and injury Bodney resumed his walk.

  56. Dozing to sleep he saw aces and kings; asleep, he drew to flushes and straights.

  57. He threw off the rigor of his resolution, and drew to a pair of sixes, caught the third, raised the opener three dollars, and won the pot against aces up.

  58. This was the man who held the aces at the barbecue, the railroad man--Whispering Smith.

  59. He's always ready to play, and holds aces most of the time.

  60. Do not strive for clean aces in doubles until you have the opening.

  61. Try for service aces whenever reasonable, but never do so at the risk of double faulting.

  62. Your aces must at least equal your double faults, or your service is a handicap and not an advantage.

  63. Honours are ace, king, queen, knave and ten of the trump suit; or the aces when no trump is declared.

  64. Don't lead your aces and kings to take a look at dummy; later in the hand you will need them to get the lead and bring in your established suit.

  65. Don't, because the dealer leads the suit, refuse to take tricks with your aces and kings.

  66. If you declare "no-trump" with but one ace the honours will probably be even; but you may find three aces against you.

  67. It is not advisable, especially when you hold no cards of re-entry, to lead aces and kings, except when you hope to catch all of the smaller cards.

  68. Holding {2 Aces and one other guarded suit.

  69. At no-trump only the Aces count as honours.

  70. This is best done by leading your Aces and other high cards before the dealer has a chance to discard and to trump.

  71. Joe Leity starts to whistle soft and low, Abe Katz opens the dumbwaiter and looks down to see what kind of a jump it is and I dropped a hundred aces on the floor.

  72. Believe me, though, while your family is all aces to me on account of bein' related to you, I often find myself wishin' that you had been an orphan!

  73. Here's where I get a cheap draw for the Dead Man's Hand--aces and eights.

  74. Two aces to go with this hand would give me a heap of confidence," he thought.

  75. Dewing spread out three aces and a pair of eights, and smiled exasperatingly.

  76. Then, when Mr. Scotty obliged by flashing another eight, I knowed you was to deal me two aces for confidence cards and two more to yourself, to make out a full hand to beat my king-full.

  77. Here's where you see aces and eights beaten," he said, addressing Dewing.

  78. Aces and eights have never been beaten yet.

  79. If one of the aces I got in the draw had been either hearts or black, I'd have lost a little money; and there's an end.


  80. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.