How to Use trump in a Sentence

trump

1 of 2 noun
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  • Tarot was just a trump card game first played by Europeans in the 1400s.
    — Claire Salinda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • West led a trump, and Cy drew trumps and cashed five hearts, pitching his low clubs.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Louie then drew trumps and let the queen of diamonds ride, and East produced the king and cashed his high spades.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Not one trump agenda item was stopped because of a large protest.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • South must maintain trump control in case of bad breaks.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Easter reminds us that death no longer holds the final trump card.
    — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Apr. 2021
  • If players have gone all the way around the table while passing on a trump suit, the person to the left of the dealer gets the option to choose a trump suit.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In sheepshead, trump cards (queens, jacks and diamonds) beat any other card.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2023
  • At the same time, both the West and ordinary Afghans may hold significant trump cards.
    — Edward Girardet, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2021
  • According to new research from LinkedIn, skills now trump degrees in the eyes of recruiters.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Much cheaper The trump card for Chinese EVs might be their cost advantage.
    — Laura He, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Like bridge, one suit becomes trump and defeats all other cards (no election jokes, please).
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2023
  • How on earth did the path of least resistance and keeping the trains on time trump safety, especially with the Olympics a mere five months away?
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But Trump's real, uh, trump card is his sheer volume of endorsements.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In the next beat, Larson lays down her trump card, the most contemptible symbol an author can conjure: white-lady tears.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Giuliani deserves to be in prison along with his puppet master trump, not on a television show.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Van Alen’s 27-ton spire, secretly assembled high up in the building’s skeleton, was his trump card.
    — Michael Snyder, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But with aniline leather, named for the synthetic dye used in processing it, the feel of the leather trumps practicality.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Then, Magic dropped his trump card, which almost changed the course of basketball forever.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But submarines remain Russia’s trump card in naval combat; Moscow need only choose to play it.
    — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Every deal is different, but one sign that an end play may be available is having extra trumps.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Yet trump took top secret documents and he still isn’t arrested?
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Feeling good now trumps looking good and healthspan—the quality of our years—has become just as important as lifespan.
    — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Here, ramen is the go-to skier’s lunch, hot tubs are replaced by the traditional outdoor hot springs known as onsen, and karaoke bars trump nightclubs.
    — Gabriella Le Breton, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The United States fought bloody and protracted wars in Korea and Vietnam and yet abstained from playing its nuclear trump card.
    — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • But don’t let these new electronics trump preparedness.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • But at the most fundamental level, our need for one another trumps our need to exclude one another.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Hasten has seen other benefits trump raises first-hand.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 26 June 2022
  • Disney’s holiday season trump card is the sequel to James Cameron’s blockbuster hit Avatar, to which the entertainment giant has pinned millions of dollars-worth resources and hopes.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Graham has apparently changed his mind (not for the first time) and decided to pull out all of his last trump cards to protect the former President ahead of his second impeachment trial.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2021
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trump

2 of 2 verb
  • Sometimes, like this time, the head needs to trump the racing heart.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Fame trumps all, and the media fawn and favor at the altar.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • Learn which West Coast city trumps the old pizza standbys.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • What trumps that, though, is doubling down on a matching pair.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The same as always: Kid’s well-being trumps your feelings.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That made Charlotte the first female royal to trump a younger male sibling.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
  • So that, even in a more complete way, the award, the honorary award trumped the single award for the performance as an actor.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • Money trumps everything and nobody’s going to take the time to put a full song on there.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The graphics aren’t always as bad as the examples, and graphics don’t trump fun.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 13 July 2023
  • But those concerns are trumped by the benefits of the heating system.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The spectacle of watching crime tends to trump a lesson on crime statistics.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • It was assumed that the fuzzy hatchling was plucked from her nest on May 20 as a meal, but that parental instinct somehow trumped hunger when the eagle returned to its lair.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Of course, wins over San Diego’s two other Division I basketball teams would trump them all.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Knowing the personality of the hostess may trump all these rules.
    — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The ocean has been productive enough returning fish simply stuffed themselves until the urge to spawn trumped bait balls.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There is a point, however, when the glove cannot trump the long-term offensive realities.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
  • Here’s what experts had to say about why self-perception of sleep trumps what the sleep tracker says, and ways to improve sleep quality to boost your next-day mood.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Sometimes a fake rumor trumps a real one, and hell hath no fury like a stan with a juicy theory and access to social media.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2024
  • California hopes its senior water rights will trump the united front shown by the six other states.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Dorsey said his bill would not trump agreements or contracts that some neighborhoods, like Roland Park, have in place banning multi-unit homes.
    — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2022
  • But for the most part, the communal thirst for outrage appears to trump any potential skepticism.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In that sense, the left has mirrored the populist style of the far right, in which personality trumps the traditional party machine.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This was a document not meant to win in court so much as trump the reality of an otherwise boring election.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But when the game is in the balance and buckets need to be produced, the Suns are banking on creating just enough chaos in mismatches to trump all of the concerns about their rim-attacking.
    — Shane Young, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The appearance of not disrupting public order had trumped the moment, itself a response to the disruption and harassment that had packed the room.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Owning the Libs now trumps serious discussion, which makes the upcoming debates all the more ripe for the loudest and least nuanced character.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 July 2023
  • No one who understands physics can turn around and accept a claim that Marxism-Leninism is special wisdom that trumps everything else.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The bigger point Berry made, looking back on Chubb’s extension, is sometimes positional value might be trumped by the player.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 23 July 2023
  • Don’t let your indecisiveness trump these amazing on-sale Tory Burch styles.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The team gets a stroke of luck in the early rounds, earning a bye when tournament favorites South Africa see their arrival delayed by passport issues, though there’s no prize for guessing that sportsmanship will trump gamesmanship in the long run.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024

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