Example sentences for: broads

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

  • Most authorities in these matters [cf. Darwin Ortiz's Gambling Scams , p. 189] agree that the broads tossed or faked in three-card monte [XXII,3,15, item 5] are not specifically the queens; rather, the reference is to pasteboards that are wider than the standard deck (viz. pokersized cards vs. bridge-sized), which makes cheating by sleight-of-hand easier in that game.

  • 5. fake the broads--broads are the three queens in a three-card monte game, and faking broads would be setting up the usual fraudulent game.

  • Or fake the broads?

  • The pub is named after a bird common in the Broads, the grey heron Ardea cinerea , known locally as the harnser . We do not mistake it for a hawk, a plasterer's board with a handle underneath (called, interestingly enough, oiseau in French).

  • The recent vogues for cigars, cocktails, and the Rat Pack were not wistful evocations of a more civilized time; they were wistful evocations of the last great period of big Straight White Guy fun, before the broads and the fags came in to ruin it all.


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