Sentence examples for for four spades from inspiring English sources

South settled for four spades.

North settled for four spades, and that was passed out.

This did not excite East, who settled for four spades.

(One pair bid and made four spades. Another scored 990 for four spades doubled and made with an overtrick).

At the other table North opened one club, South responded one spade, North rebid only two spades and South settled for four spades, winning 12 tricks.

(Four diamonds cannot be an attempt to find a fit, because he denied a five-card suit with his initial response. With no spade fit, North would rebid three no-trump. And with spade support in an otherwise unexciting hand, he would settle for four spades).

The percentage play for four spade tricks is to run the ten, then to cash dummy's ace.

However, I settled for three spades, which was passed out.

North then settled for three spades, which ended the auction.

He is a tad too good for two spades, so he jumps to three spades.

Over two spades, though, he should have made a three-diamond game-try and passed when South settled for three spades.