How to Use canasta in a Sentence
canasta
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Bob was an avid canasta player, loved theatre and reading and was an expert at poker and played golf.
—courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
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There's always a class going on at the center for the community to enjoy such as yoga, quilting, karate, dominoes and canasta.
—Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
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Which means, really, the race could be better than canasta in somebody’s suburban basement.
—John Baer, Philly.com, 15 May 2018
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E-mail lists and forums, role-playing games and online canasta are all precursors to potential romance.
—Regina Lynn, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2005
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As a recent cancer survivor, Barbara loved to exercise, play bridge, knit, and was starting a new hobby, learning to play canasta with her friends in Florida.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Feb. 2018
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Eighty guests joined 20 members in playing bingo, canasta, bridge and progressive rummy.
—Joyce Rudolph, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
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The glassware was reminiscent of the mid-20th century, when gathering to play card games such as canasta and bridge was in vogue – and drinking was a seriously stylish endeavor.
—Sarah De Crescenzo, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2017
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Offerings range from cultural such as virtual museum tours and concerts to current events, tech classes and lessons for online canasta.
—Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
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Mildred was a bookkeeper, avid canasta player, and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 July 2018
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Jacquie always had more energy than any two people, playing tennis and canasta, swimming and painting as a young working mother, and filling her later years with ceramics, water ballet, ushering, and bridge.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2018
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