How to Use craps in a Sentence

craps

noun
  • Like a craps player, MLB, for the moment, is looking to spread its chips across the table.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
  • For two weeks, Frank avoided the bunk room, spending his days playing craps on deck.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
  • Those patrons may play the slots or roll the dice at a craps table after laying a bet on the Super Bowl.
    Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2017
  • This is such a basic function: a human goes into a cave, craps, and leaves it there.
    National Geographic, 9 June 2018
  • The deal also allows the Seminoles to offer craps and roulette at its casinos.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Gasp as the puck strikes the shaft of his outstretched stick, smack on the M in CCM, before it is safely corralled like chips at a craps table.
    Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 31 May 2018
  • The deal also allows the tribe to add craps and roulette to its casino operations.
    Dara Kam, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • That agreement didn’t allow for sports gambling or craps and roulette, which are also part of the new agreement.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The event will feature roulette, blackjack, craps and Texas Hold’em Poker tables.
    Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • There's more room at the craps table -- and EMTs on hand in case anyone needs immediate help.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 June 2020
  • New games will include mini baccarat, craps and roulette.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2021
  • After dinner, guests will mosey over to the casino for a chance to win some prizes at the black jack, poker, roulette or craps tables.
    Faye Reeder, star-telegram, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Adding roulette and craps is likely far more valuable to them than the ability to offer sports betting.
    Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2021
  • Why not just go out to Las Vegas and stand at any one of several decent craps tables that the city offers?
    John Navin, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • Behind supreme self-confidence, Lue won at cards, ping-pong, craps, billiards, and trash talk.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But that was before the reins of the section were handed to Gene Weingarten, who gave exactly 0.000 craps about any of those subjects.
    Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Without center Corey Linsley and with backups up front, the big guys rolled craps against a defense used to losing.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • No more whispers at the craps table, no more watching Gretzky or Messier with envy.
    Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2022
  • Santan Mountain will have more than 850 slots and table games, such as mini-baccarat, craps and roulette.
    Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Living in Los Gatos a few years later, Cornero had a childhood epiphany while shooting craps.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • The dice are sanitized before being handed to a new customer at the craps tables.
    Chad Calder | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Harrah's Ak-Chin has one craps table and one baccarat table.
    Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The poker tables were noisy with the clatter of chips, the craps tables were hosting a lively game, and a large group converged at the baccarat tables.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Casinos have slots, poker and other table games such as baccarat, craps and roulette.
    Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 20 May 2018
  • Her wit, or what feels a lot like it, fizzes through the first half, sparking off in little corners where the old-timey lines about craps tables and cigars usually go.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Seminole spokesman Gary Bitner said craps and roulette never started.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The tribe also will get other benefits, such as being able to offer craps and roulette at its casinos.
    Jim Saunders, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • Tribal casinos would also be allowed to add new games, such as craps, to their existing venues.
    Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Watching Block pull a reverse entry in front of the Mandalay Bay or turn doughnuts in a casino lobby while a bunch of craps players cheer him on lit up the basest pleasure centers in my brain in a way that few other things can.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 7 Dec. 2022

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