playing cards
- plural of playing card.
Example Sentences
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Items available included secateurs, a builder's trowel and even left-handed playing cards.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Coburn’s play stars the married actors as nursing-home residents who connect by playing cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In another corner of the facility, people wearing smart glasses place and pick up playing cards and sort plastic plates by hand, collecting first-person videos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
"It was raining, we were all in the tent playing cards with the gang, then we heard shouting," camper Matthew Stanhope told The Age newspaper, saying he and his friends ran to a nearby hill.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Four men are sitting on rough burlap feed sacks, playing cards by the light of a kerosene lantern.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
