Playing Card

GREENBELT CRAFTS AND MAGIC SHOW, for all ages, create playing-card mini-notebooks and watch a performance by Joe Romano. 1-4 p.m., ❋ Post (2010)

Brooke, with his curved, playing-card profile, is restless, questing and manically contradictory: Laskey, in contrast, is still, cautious and reassuringly consistent. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I called the album "The Spade" through a process of elimination when wanting a playing-card theme on the record. ❋ Jon Chattman (2011)

I present to you the museum-compatible, slim alternative to cardboard and playing-card tablets: Weaving tablets made of parchment. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

Yamauchi is the man credited with transforming Nintendo from playing-card company to video game giant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although the origin of the phrase went unrecorded, it almost certainly sprang from their familiarity with two other playing-card epithets. ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)

Analysts said that may be an expression of caution typical of the company, founded in 1889 as a playing-card maker. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It flies out bent in the middle like a playing-card, and I'm laying on the horn with the points of both elbows, my right arm doing its last job. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (2008)

I just recently discovered this blog I was looking for a review of the playing-card book, but I've read all the recent posts -- and plan on reading the archives! ❋ Burlesque Daily (2007)

Then the building site is back, still turning on a hinge as the windshield pops out, flies out bent in the middle like a playing-card, and I'm laying on the horn with the points of both elbows, my right arm doing its last job. ❋ Bachman, Richard (2007)

This room was where Laila and Tariq did their homework, where they built playing-card towers and drew ridiculous portraits of each other. ❋ Hosseini, Khaled (2007)

The “Court Gazette” of a German paper can be covered with a playing-card. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The year before, the company had put out a weird playing-card set, with Bob Feller as a Strike, Duke Snider as a Single, and Del Ennis as a Stolen Base. ❋ VINCE STATEN (2003)

In the United States, the way was paved by the most talented and lasting designers of the latter part of the twentieth century Perhaps the biggest influence at the time was Perry Ellis—Mr. Pop of American fashion—who designed young fun knits with graphic images think signature playing-card pullover or scenes of the New York City skyline at night. ❋ Nancy J. Thomas (2002)

She thought of the playing-card soldiers swirling around Alice. ❋ Deaver, Jeffery (1992)

Out of a piece of Bristol-board (an old playing-card will do) cut a figure in the shape of the annexed diagram. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was at this moment she saw something white, no bigger than a playing-card, lie at her feet. ❋ Various (N/A)

You have probably heard the legend, as I had, about a certain playing-card being known as "The Curse of Scotland" because the order for the massacre of Glencoe was written out on a nine of diamonds. ❋ Unknown (1938)

[Maureen] [Walsh]: “... nurses are probably [playing cards] for a considerable amount of the day!” ❋ AuntDoritoRN (2019)

Mom: Want to [go play] [cards]? Dad: Yes, let's go have sex! Kid: [Ewww], mom, gross! ❋ Cori And Laura (2021)

Person 1: Hey I'm a playing [card] Person 2: [the fuck] does that mean? Person 1: it means I'm [Asexual] ❋ LivinKawasaki (2021)

"Dude, I'm [skiving] [physics] [to go] 'play cards'" ❋ Xephelion (2004)

Hey man, [lets go] [play cards]. Last night we were playing some [cards]. ❋ Bretthieu Awesome (2006)

[My friends] [caught] me [playing cards]. ❋ Milliebeanz (2011)

So I was [playing cards] on [this chick's] back with her boyfriend, and she called me the next day and asked for some one-on-one time. I [kick ass]! ❋ General Septem (2010)

She was [playing cards] and [went] [all in]! ❋ Leidback (2008)

"[Nice] [idea], [we should] play cards around it." ❋ Liam Harper (2006)

“That guy that was talking to [you was] kinda cute “ “[Ehh], he kind of had [playing card face] “ ❋ Old Dave (2021)