Sentence examples for a lone bid from inspiring English sources

In a lone bid the loner's partner's cards are laid facedown before the opening lead, which is made by the player at the loner's immediate left or by that player's partner if the latter is playing alone.

Lone Bid, a 9-1 outsider, was another 1 lengths back in third place.

He lost his lone bid for Parliament in 1997, which was surprising given his name.

A spokesman for the office explained later that despite the agreement with the federal government, the county had still been reviewing the lone bid and had determined that afternoon that the terms were not acceptable.

Mr. DiVincenzo and his senior aides took turns defending the process — "I think it was fair and open," Mr. Paganelli said — and said they were still reviewing the lone bid.

But we're not likely to see a lone city bidding for the Olympics again anytime soon.

A bid of five is overcalled by a bid of eight, which is an undertaking to play a lone hand after exchanging cards, and that by a bid of 15, which is to play alone with the hand as dealt.

The world changes, Katie Kim sings the last faery lament, a lone wind blows – and we bid you farewell.

Bidding against a lone telephone client, Mr. Kilgore was able to get the picture for $170,750.

That was much in evidence at Christie's London Impressionist and 19th-century sale last year when a lone telephone bidder swallowed the auctioneer's bait and bid 380,000 for a Camille Pissarro landscape from circa 1878.

The government says it does not think that Mr. Megrahi was a lone wolf or part of an independent cell that was trying to do the Libyan leader's bidding without telling him.