How To Use Sevens In A Sentence

  • I'm asking this because the mythical performance of Warren Page's 7mm Mashburn - the GOLDEN STANDARD for Sevens - a 175-grainer at 3,000 fps, is what people have in mind when they buy the 7mmRemMag. What We Can Learn From Lefty
  • Born in Samoa, Lee became eligible for New Zealand only at the turn of the year and hopes the sevens will be a springboard for his rugby career. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • A careful induction from all the passages where this number cannot be regarded as fortuitous, but is evidently of Divine ordinance and appointment (I call fortuitous such sevens as occur, Acts xix. 14; xx. 6), will leave no doubt that it claims throughont Scripture to be considered as the covenant number, the sign and signature of God's covenant relation to mankind, and above all to that portion of mankind with which this relation is not potential merely, but actual, namely the Church. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
  • The winner of the trick leads to the next trick, by first playing any sevens he has and claiming them as tricks and then leading a playable card.
  • However, melds of sevens and aces are subject to some special rules and restrictions.
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  • For evidence of our sloth, see the newly published report from the British Heart Foundation which reveals that we are raising a generation of slobs with a third of all under-sevens failing to reach the minimum recommended activity levels.
  • They were the first country to organise an international sevens tournament, which they did to celebrate their Centenary in 1973.
  • Sevenseas Ajax and Deep Blue 12. They didn't have any trouble. THE SHIPPING NEWS
  • Friday said: ‘Some players are destined to be great fifteens players, and some great sevens players.’
  • There is little doubt that we could field a super sevens, but to send a third-rate crew that far, and at considerable expense, is hardly good financial management.
  • Sevens and sixes are worth two points, nines and ones are worth nothing, and all other cards are worth one point each.
  • In the lesser arcana, Venus rules the sevens on cabbalistic grounds.
  • You must have at least one example of each type - natural, mixed, wild, sequence and sevens - completed with 7 cards in each, and you may also have additional canastas or smaller melds of any types.
  • The qualification for some of those games is that the provincial teams were missing All Blacks, New Zealand colts and sevens players, and had very little time together to prepare.
  • To suggest that the noble versifier is at sixes and sevens? The Times Literary Supplement
  • If a player has a few nines, and some sevens, a couple of 8's, he may on trying be able to make a set of four different 9's, as well as a series of 6, 7, 8, and 9.
  • Hillbilly, the word for seven in Latin, septem, is indeclinable, so you can't use sevi to say multiple sevens. Breaking the Duck: Coming to Terms with Cycling
  • The New Zealand rugby sevens team have hit rough times, losing in three consecutive tournaments to Argentina.
  • The win will boost the team's morale ahead of the first round of the IRB rugby sevens tournament which kicks off in Durban next week.
  • It has been suggested that a cap may be introduced on the number of sports, and that more core sports could be added to the five - athletics, aquatics, lawn bowls, rugby sevens and netball - currently on the programme.
  • The special powers of all cards except sevens and eights are nullified during this period, as is the possibility of discarding a series.
  • The visions of the Apocalypse, the seals, trumpets, and vials, &c., are grouped in sevens, and naturally begin on the first day of the seven, the birthday of the Church, whose future they set forth [Wordsworth]. great voice -- summoning solemn attention; Greek order, "I heard a voice behind me great (loud) as (that) of a trumpet. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The national stadium will also be the venue for rugby sevens as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.
  • In the Keybury League under-sevens Group D, Myrtle Park hammered Gomersal C 11-0.
  • Three weeks ago Pears was rushed to hospital for x-rays to a head injury after being injured during a sevens tournament.
  • For example, if you ask for sevens and they have 3 sevens, they only have to give you one, until you ask again for a seven.
  • Hola may be played with sevens as the only wild cards, twos being worthless.
  • East and West have no more sevens or tens to play, so North has beaten off the attack.
  • The annual inter-company rugby sevens competition was held in the afternoon.
  • The Mooloo Sevens had beaten Auckland recently and had looked the only team to effectively contest them.
  • The oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture is a sevensecond close-up of a man sneezing. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were the first country to organise an international sevens tournament, which they did to celebrate their Centenary in 1973.
  • Players who made their sixes and sevens before the watering were not allowed to go back to try again, rendering the whole event a farce.
  • Three schools of new grade sevens would be mixed together in five classes.
  • I haven't had time to arrange everything, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
  • For Emeruwa, life has been turned upside down after an ankle injury in a sevens match in 1984.
  • Jonah was part of the New Zealand rugby sevens team which struck gold at the last Commonwealth Games.
  • East and West have no more sevens or tens to play, so North has beaten off the attack.
  • Some players allow the pairs hand with wilds, sevens and aces to use a pair of jokers or a pair of twos as the wilds.
  • It's not often you get a big lock or loosie from 15s playing in the sevens.
  • The smell of wolf — of two girls, yes, but also a wolf — and magic somehow relating to sevens sets Sebastian and Abigail Irene to finding out what terrible thaumaturgical experiments the Prussians are into now. I asked the same question once.
  • Rugby sevens is a faster seven - a - side version of rugby.
  • I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
  • Some play that a prial of threes or a prial of sevens, rather than nines, is highest.
  • Then giving the glass a graceful wave which showed that his hand was quite experienced in the throwing of dice, he called sevens the main, and whisking the ivory cubes gently on the table, swept them up lightly again from the cloth, and repeated this process two or three times. The History of Pendennis
  • The first player to collect all four sevens wins.
  • IRB tournament operations manager Beth Coalter said the decision on which city would host the sevens was the NZRU's to make, but she made it clear the IRB had long viewed Wellington as one of its flagship tournaments. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • `You know how some people make ones that look like sevens ? NO BODY
  • Blackened court cards laid along her thigh by sevens.
  • Standing by are five sports that have been proposed as replacements - golf, sevens rugby, karate, roller sports and squash.
  • Yeah, well I have two sevens and two sevens beats a frush. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • At the end, if you have completed your canasta of sevens, each red three you have laid out counts for 100 points bonus.
  • Mackay, 26, who was as adept in the back-row as in the second-row, was best known as a sevens player, having represented Australia regularly on the international circuit for the past five years, skippering the side in numerous tournaments. Undefined
  • For instance, if I form a canasta of sevens, any further sevens that are discarded by any player prevent the next player from taking the discard pile in the same way that black threes and wild cards do.
  • You must have at least one example of each type - natural, mixed, wild, sequence and sevens - completed with 7 cards in each, and you may also have additional canastas or smaller melds of any types.
  • Some players allow the pairs hand to include sevens or aces but never threes or wild cards.
  • All nine provinces will be taking part in nine codes of sport (soccer, netball, athletics, swimming, sevens rugby, cricket, table tennis, field hockey and goalball). ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Their fingers skim on the silk as the unwieldy billows of parachute flatten like sea-waves, oiled, folded in sevens.
  • Zimba said he would not field a team at the Rhino Sevens because the tournament was only meant for clubs.
  • If only three are playing, remove the sevens and eights from the deck before dealing.
  • The first player to collect all four sevens wins. [There are no jokers in this game.]
  • Diggers coach Kelvin Clulee, who had expected the game to be tough, said his side were disjointed as they had not trained together as a team in the last month due to internationals and sevens championships.
  • Nines, eights and sevens are neutral - they carry no penalty and have no special effect.
  • If after completing your canasta of sevens you draw another one you must hold onto it, and it will prevent you from going out, even if you have met all the other requirements.
  • World Cup winner Roff, 25, last played sevens in Hong Kong in 1995 and made an immediate impact, playing in the unaccustomed role of prop.
  • It's called sevens because each team has seven players on the field at a time with seven-minute halves. Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines

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