How to Use three-card monte in a Sentence
three-card monte
noun
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Just like in three-card monte, everyone wins except the mark.
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Robert Pearl,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2021
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Like three-card monte, or jazz, the play — and, at its best, Kenny Leon’s direction of it — moves too fast for analysis.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
20 Oct. 2022
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At intermission, the audience has just learned that Lincoln, who’s vowed to get out of the three-card monte game for good, is ready to get back into it after all.
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Rebecca Milzoff,
Billboard,
18 Nov. 2022
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New Orleans watched for months as the top three candidates for mayor shuffled to the lead in poll after poll like a game of three-card Monte, deceiving anyone who thought a favorite would emerge.
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Richard Rainey,
NOLA.com,
17 Oct. 2017
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In the wide-open world of grifts and schemes, an overinflated basketball may not rank with identity theft, Facebook come-ons from a Nigerian prince or even a hurried game of three-card monte.
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Dan Barry,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2023
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His hands move quickly, rearranging the clips as deftly as a three-card monte dealer manipulates his cards.
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Steve Nadis,
Discover Magazine,
10 Feb. 2020
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Crime plummeted, corporate profits soared, and three-card monte dealers in Times Square gave way to Disney characters.
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Devlin Barrett,
Washington Post,
16 Sep. 2022
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And now, 40-odd years later, their achievements are under assault from a gaggle of lightweights and a president-elect whose only apparent political skill is the equivalent of a three-card monte game on the E train.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
17 Jan. 2017
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In depicting three-card monte Parks is also depicting capitalism, the über-hustle.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
20 Oct. 2022
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Lincoln supports them with a gig as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, and Booth spends his days shoplifting, aggressively trying to woo an ex and planning his debut as a master of three-card monte.
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Maya Phillips,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2023
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