Sentence examples for dummy hand from inspiring English sources

Two dummy hand grenades that had been fashioned into crude bombs exploded outside the Mexican Consulate in Manhattan about 3 40 a.m. yesterday, the authorities said.

They could see that all Lauria had to do, for the Italians to secure a tie, was select the queen of spades from the dummy hand.

Three hands and a dummy hand are dealt, the latter faceup on the opposite side of the table from the person whose turn it is to play it.

On Sunday, aboard an American Airlines plane taxiing toward takeoff from San Diego, a passenger removed a jacket from what she thought was her carry-on bag -- and a dummy hand grenade fell out into the aisle.

In the hushed setting of a hotel overlooking the Mediterranean and the belle epoque facades of Monte Carlo, Lorenzo Lauria of Italy, one of the world's top bridge players, reached across the table to select that card from the dummy hand that his partner had left face up.

Previously, scientists found that when both real and fake were simultaneously tapped or stroked, people said they felt as if the sensations came from the dummy hand.

The principal innovations of bridge whist were: selection of the trump suit by the dealer or the dealer's partner after they saw their hands; the option of playing at no trump; the exposed dummy (the hand of dealer's partner), which was played by the dealer; a different method of scoring; and the right to double (the scoring values).

Now, all Lauria had to do was play the queen of spades from the dummy's hand, which he would have known was the winner.

The voice belongs to actor and ventriloquist Nina Conti, her sorrowful, raddled dummy in hand, in the film from which the commission takes its name.

The essential features added by auction bridge were that all four players bid for the right to name the trump suit and that the high bidder or his partner (not necessarily the dealer) became declarer and played the dummy's hand.

Work with your dummy's hand to make contracts.