How to Use canasta in a Sentence

canasta

noun

• Bob was an avid canasta player, loved theatre and reading and was an expert at poker and played golf.
  — courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Which means, really, the race could be better than canasta in somebody’s suburban basement.
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 15 May 2018
• E-mail lists and forums, role-playing games and online canasta are all precursors to potential romance.
  — Regina Lynn, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2005
• 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
• Eighty guests joined 20 members in playing bingo, canasta, bridge and progressive rummy.
  — Joyce Rudolph, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Mildred was a bookkeeper, avid canasta player, and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 July 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024