Sentence examples for bridge a hand from inspiring English sources

Its closest metaphoric synonym is from bridge: a hand so strong that the player can expose his cards on the table is called a lay-down hand.

Aviva Stanoff, right, has created in her studio in Dumbo, which has a view of the Manhattan Bridge, a hand-decorated line of home accessories.

In bridge, a laydown hand is a winning hand placed face up on the table all at once, rather than being played out.

The same can be true at the bridge table: a hand can be too good, and the player may end up wishing he had had a little less.

It would have, Brodsky writes, a river that juts out from under a bridge "like a hand from a sleeve", spreading its fingers towards the gulf "like Chopin, who never shook a fist at anyone as long as he lived".

"The sense that there's a bridge, that a hand can be extended, and you can step from the Earth, from the supermarket car park, into the Andromeda nebulae or whatever".

Every letter we write starts a connection, creates a history, lays the first stones of a bridge, extends a hand.

"You feel great when there is someone you trust there on the bridge, a firm hand".

A preliminary 50th anniversary reenactment of the 1965 march was led on Saturday by Obama, the nation's first black president, who crossed the bridge hand-in-hand with veteran activists who were beaten and hospitalized that day, including Georgia congressman John Lewis and 103-year-old Amelia Boynton Robinson.

After I get to the end, there is a sound that could be applause or could be a bridge hand getting underway.

Mrs. North plays a bridge hand incorrectly and Mr. North is emotionally upset.