Sentence examples for flush straight from inspiring English sources

The birds might run, but they often also flush straight up, with loud, whirring wingbeats that seem to serve to startle predators.

The city has bought a Swedish water-treatment plant to clean much of its sewage and factory effluent; impressive when one remembers that even Hong Kong's toilets usually flush straight out into the bay.

This assembly will be the basic support for the tabletop, and fitting everything flush (straight and aligned) and tightly joined together will give you a good, solid finished table.

They were built in the 1860s by the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette to intercept raw sewage that previously ended up being flushed straight into the Thames.

The same 53-card pack including the joker is used, but the joker here called the bug counts only as a fifth ace or to fill a flush, a straight, or certain special hands.

They could have an ace, they could have two aces and have slow played me, they could have a medium pocket pair and they want to see if I have an ace, maybe they are on a flush or straight draw or maybe they suck at poker.

This is crucial if you're playing a flush or straight draw, or have a low pair.

For example, it after the flop you have both flush and straight draws (say, the 10, 9, 7 and 2 of diamonds, and the 8 of clubs) you might deduce that you have 17 outs.

In a bad beat, four aces are always losing to a fluke straight flush, and some idiot opponent is always lucking into great cards at a statistically improbable time.

National security beats full house, straight flush, royal flush, you name it.

(There are 2,598,960 possible five-card poker hands, only four of which can be royal flushes. The royal flushes are four of 40 possible straight flushes; the chances of getting any straight flush are 1 in 64,974).[5].