Sentence examples for a weak hand from inspiring English sources

So she'll also know that parliament's gains were usually the result of monarchical weakness, a monarch playing a weak hand badly.

leadership, for its part, played a weak hand poorly.

The auction suggested that East had a weak hand.

Mr. Kim played a weak hand very well.

But Iraq has taken a weak hand and played it effectively.

Everyone knows he has a weak hand, and he prefers spades over the other unbid suits.

With 14 high-card points he could anticipate that his partner had a weak hand.

As Mr Brexit he has a weak hand and needs Berlin's goodwill to see off Ukip.

But gushing about the Founding Fathers and demeaning intellectuals is a weak hand.

With such a weak hand, he would normally respond one spade.

(With a weak hand, get to the nine-trick level with nine combined trumps).