Sentence examples for take a trick from inspiring English sources

Anyone failing to take a trick is knocked out and retires.

The poor old Penny Panthers can't take a trick with injuries this year.

A new rule being circulated would take a trick that the power company Duke Energy dreamed up for circumventing New Source Review and turn it into law.

Finally, if both defenders throw a diamond winner, South can lead any card in his hand and eventually take a trick.

West, who did not know that his trumps were due to take a trick, obliged by playing low, and South seized his opportunity.

It is a second- or third-hand play that seeks to take a trick with a card, usually an honor, when the opponents hold one or more higher cards.

With an early spade play, the defenders could have taken a trick in each side suit for down three.

Taking a trick from bacterial genetics, neurogeneticist Heidi Scrable and colleagues at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have now adapted a well studied regulatory system to the lab mouse.

As it was, it would appear that the defense was likely to take a trump trick and a club trick.

With the cards West held, he was certain to take a trump trick.

So if he were permitted to take a club trick, he was home.