How to Use blackjack in a Sentence

blackjack

noun
  • Gamblers, the Fortuna Pool is one of the few on the Strip with swim-up blackjack.
    Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2021
  • One of those blackjack girls had snapped some photos — and sold them.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Try your hands at poker, blackjack, hearts or any other card game for the prize of your choice.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Mellencamp learned to fight with a blackjack—a strip of leather with a piece of steel sewn into it.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Do the coffee drinkers in your life also love a good game of poker or blackjack?
    Juliet Izon, wsj.com, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Save some money for the blackjack tables and fly to Las Vegas for less than $50.
    Peter Rasmussen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Take away the blackjack tables, and Dallas can be just as big and bold as Vegas.
    Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The sun-dimming joke had failed for the very reasons the blackjack joke succeeded.
    Tim Alberta, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2021
  • At best the city thought the grant might not come for at least a year, playing blackjack with the residents’ safety.
    Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021
  • The video of their night ended with John seated at a blackjack table.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Now, anyone 21 years or older can drive into the Nutmeg State and place a sports bet or play some blackjack by the side of the road.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • At any rate, Ulis’ serious blackjack-playing days are in the past.
    oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2021
  • At a blackjack table, Hutchins said players still can use cash.
    Ken Ritter, USA TODAY, 26 June 2021
  • The evening includes craft cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, live music, blackjack, craps and roulette under the stars.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • On a college trip to Las Vegas, Davis recalls, the two friends sat down at a blackjack table.
    Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • To subscribe to the Free Press for less than the minimum blackjack bet at a midsized casino, click here.
    Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In addition to poker, blackjack and roulette, there’s a gold rush-style can-can show, as well as local artists on the stage.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
  • The event will feature roulette, blackjack, craps and Texas Hold’em Poker tables.
    Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Hoover jumped off the bus too, but Lummus hit him between the eyes with his blackjack in the melee, and four or five White soldiers came after him.
    Alexa Mills, Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • The new limits per table: three players at blackjack, four at roulette and poker and six at craps.
    Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 7 June 2020
  • The video of their night ends with Travolta seated at a blackjack table.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The floor will have 36 poker tables and 48 blackjack tables.
    Jen Fifield, azcentral, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Want to ski or snowboard, hike or mountain bike, watch live music or play some blackjack?
    Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The future homeowner can try their hand at ranching and test their luck at the blackjack table.
    Brianna Griff, Chron, 27 Nov. 2022
  • That means no more cloth muffling a cheer at a lucky blackjack hand or stifling conversation among the crowds strolling the halls of the resorts.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Richie was shown the door by security, like a guy caught counting cards at the blackjack table.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Grandma Fern was an Auntie Mame, see-the-world type, the kind of grandmother who would take you to a piano bar or teach you how to play blackjack.
    New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Cliques of chattering teenagers roamed the long decks or sprawled on chairs near the casino’s empty blackjack tables.
    New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Get him near a blackjack table, a roulette wheel, or a sure-thing sports bet, however, and it’s like watching a shark smell chum in the water.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2022
  • And for every $100 that a hapless tourist lost at the blackjack table in a haze of free booze, a mafia boss in Chicago or New York wanted his cut.
    CBS News, 5 July 2022

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