Example sentences for: solitaire

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

  • For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .

  • Solitaire is for that.)

  • But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway?

  • You'd be stuck playing Solitaire.

  • A portal site is a Web page with useful features such as a Web search engine, your local weather, sundry links, perhaps a stock ticker, news headlines, a small button that says "Click here or we e-mail your boss that you've been playing Solitaire again," and so on.


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