Sentence examples for as the spade from inspiring English sources

With a good club suit as well as the spade ace, that player would have had a borderline opening bid.

Although it sounded as if the spade ace would be ruffed by one of his opponents, the heart ace looked unattractive, given South's opening bid.

As it was, the spade king fell from East, a gratifying result.

So West played her club deuce at Trick 1, trying to make it look as if she had the spade king, not the heart ace.

This establishes the spade jack as the 10th trick.

Then another diamond promotes the spade nine as the setting trick.

It was the spade three (as correctly mentioned in the text), not the heart seven.

After any return South could score the spade nine as his 12th trick, since the spades were certain to divide evenly.

In the replay against the same contract, Cornstein selected the spade ten as her opening lead.

He could then cash three club winners, and had the spade ace as his 12th trick.

When he led a club, declarer would have established a second trick in the suit with the spade king as the dummy entry.