Sentence examples for bid to trick from inspiring English sources
Google was starting to do a better job of policing Android apps, said Mr Bradley, and had cracked down on those programs that produced adverts that looked like system messages in a bid to trick people into clicking on them.
Here, West knew that his side had at least 10 spades, so he bid to the 10-trick level.
The Law of Total Tricks advises jumping to four spades: in a competitive auction when your side does not have the high-card values for game, bid to the 10-trick level with 10 combined trumps.
A bid of 21is known as shooting the moon, which is a bid to take all tricks.
Guy Hands, the British private equity financier, took to the witness box yesterday on the second day of his bid to prove he was tricked into paying too much for the music company EMI.
The lowest bid is three a bid to take three "books" (tricks) more than six, or nine books total with a trump suit not yet specified.
At Yarmouth, Frank Bridge (8.20), who looks to have plenty in his favour in his bid to complete a hat-trick, is the best bet on the card.
North was no doubt thinking of the Law of Total Tricks: bid to the three-level with a nine-card fit.(He probably expected his partner to have either five hearts or a stronger hand).
Serena Williams was sent tumbling out of Wimbledon as her bid to complete a hat-trick of titles came to an end at the hands of French ninth seed Marion Bartoli.
