1. When in doubt, play trumps.

2. Every time John is late getting home he trumps up some new excuse.

3. But then he decided to play his trump card .

4. I played a trump.

5. Sylvia does not get on with the supervisor and the danger is that he will trump up some charge to discredit her.

6. I trumped up a story to amuse the children.

7. The Socialists tried to trump this with their slogan.

8. The team turned up trumps on the day.

9. They've linked her with various men, including magnate Donald Trump.

10. I had to play a trump to win the trick.

11. He was able to get what he wanted without having to play his trump card.

12. Paul came up trumps and managed to borrow a car for us.

13. This defender's ability to score vital goals has often proved a trump card.

14. In the end, the Ten took their appeal to the Supreme Court; this, they had believed from the outset, would be their trump card.

15. Their million-pound bid for the company was trumped at the last moment by an offer for almost twice as much from their main competitor.

16. They had trumped the whole thing up to get rid of him.

16. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

17. Several of his colleagues trumped up a complaint to get him removed from the job.

18. By wearing a simple but stunning dress, she had trumped them all.

19. Nobody else in the family gave anything for the jumble sale, but my sister came up trumps.

20. It became clear,during the trial,that most of the charges against the defendant were trumped up.

21. In this context, then, situation is easily trumping personality.

22. Easily trumping both Musha and Necker at 1, 000 square acres, Parrot Cay (formerly named Pirate Cay, before the owners thought better of it) is only accessible by boat, so yacht owners are preferred.

23. Reality has a way of trumping art, and human-induced climate change is very real indeed.

24. Single guys worked the hardest around the house, trumping all age groups of married men.

25. "It seems like crony capitalism was trumping the smart decision-making, " Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, said at the hearing.

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27. In the contest for national ascendancy, motherhood appeared to be trumping arms-bearing.

28. Their goal is to create a car capable of trumping its gasoline-powered counterpart by 2010.

29. Juve have maintained contact with the Sicilians since before the winter market over Barzagli, but Inter remain confident of trumping their bitter rivals due to their greater spending power.

30. I've heard that SolarWorld and the Western solar industry is just trumping up data because they can't compete with the Chinese.

31. Today, the Finland-based firm makes three out of every ten mobile phones sold around the world, convincingly trumping electronics giants such as Motorola and Ericsson.

32. Reality has a way of trumping art, and human - climate change is very real indeed.

33. But Shenyang turned out to be the exception that proves the rule about economic growth trumping green priorities in China.

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35. This quirky aversion may be a case of psychological security trumping physical comfort.

36. Is the no-strings-attached nature of an online sex site trumping the need for an emotional connection these days?

37. This erodes the kind of institutional identity that helps create esprit de corps, and often leads to politics trumping policy.

38. "It shows that the social is trumping the biological, " says Marmot. "We can change that, and that's why I'm optimistic."

39. As safe havens go, Japan would seem to be a poor choice. In a sign of troubled financial times, however,(http:///trumping.html) this go-nowhere economy is trumping the alternatives.

40. Forgiveness, in fact, eclipsed the tragic story, trumping the violence and arresting the world's attention.

41. Small- and medium-sized countries talk about "geographical balance"; to big players that sounds like national quotas trumping talent.