Example sentences for: blackjack

How can you use “blackjack” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cons: No cocktail waitresses, and a Java applet is no competition for a blackjack table's perfect green felt.

  • Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.

  • Still, I should be surprised to find that cosh `kill, mutilate' is anything more than an extension of cosh `use a cosh [`blackjack'] on.

  • The casinos offer familiar international games — baccarat, blackjack, boule, craps, roulette — along with more exotic Chinese pastimes.

  • Two men--brothers, English professors, and gambling addicts--unrepentantly describe how they blew their inheritance at Mississippi blackjack tables.


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