Sentence examples for made his contract from inspiring English sources

How could declarer have made his contract?

If he had, he would have made his contract.

But then declarer could have made his contract.

Lall (South) won with his six and could have made his contract by playing on diamonds.

If declarer had now cashed dummy's spade king, he would have made his contract.

Now East could have made his contract if he had led dummy's diamond deuce.

South could not make his contract.

(To make his contract, South had to finesse in spades.

But trying to make his contract, he played another trump.

He had to find the spade queen to make his contract.

Then, to make his contract, South would have had to guess the club suit.