Sentence examples for cost a trick from inspiring English sources

Selecting any other suit would have cost a trick.

West shifted to a club, and when declarer won with dummy's ace, Multon (East) flamboyantly signaled with his king, which cost a trick, 300 points and 2 imps.

And if declarer had started with king-jack-sixth of clubs, playing the queen probably would not have cost a trick.

This position has some of the qualities of a winkle, when the defenders have the choice of an unblock or a throw-in, each of which costs a trick.

This cost a trump trick, allowing Smith to make her game and gain 10 imps.

He believed that if South had J-10-x of clubs, covering would cost a club trick.

Yet the Fed, which just wrapped a two-day meeting to diagnose the economy, is dismissing these real-world costs as a trick of the charts – a mere math problem rather than a real snapshot of the challenges facing Americans.

(If West takes the trick and continues with the club queen, declarer can win with his king, play a spade to dummy's ten and discard three clubs on the heart king and spade queen-jack. West ruffs the last, but it costs a trump trick. The contract goes down only one).

And if West has, say, queen-third of hearts, it will cost a natural trump trick if she has to lead the suit.

Small businesses that fail to support staff properly through maternity leave and beyond because of misplaced worries about the cost to business are missing a trick, says Nelu Abeygunasekera, partner at law firm Thomas Eggar.

That's not a trick question-the sugar costs more, if you count the liters of water that go into making it, according to a new study.