How to Use three-card monte in a Sentence

three-card monte

noun

• Just like in three-card monte, everyone wins except the mark.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Like three-card monte, or jazz, the play — and, at its best, Kenny Leon’s direction of it — moves too fast for analysis.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• At intermission, the audience has just learned that Lincoln, who’s vowed to get out of the three-card monte game for good, is ready to get back into it after all.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2022
• New Orleans watched for months as the top three candidates for mayor shuffled to the lead in poll after poll like a game of three-card Monte, deceiving anyone who thought a favorite would emerge.
  — Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• In the wide-open world of grifts and schemes, an overinflated basketball may not rank with identity theft, Facebook come-ons from a Nigerian prince or even a hurried game of three-card monte.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2023
• His hands move quickly, rearranging the clips as deftly as a three-card monte dealer manipulates his cards.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
• Crime plummeted, corporate profits soared, and three-card monte dealers in Times Square gave way to Disney characters.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• That subplot also introduces the metaphor of three-card monte that runs throughout the episode.
  — ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
• But what Booth desperately wants is for Linc to teach him the art of three-card monte, and to work with him on the street.
  — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
• These characters are fluent in three-card monte rap, no cards required.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
• Or can one side be played as a sucker during a game of three-card monte on the sidewalk outside the dingy bus terminal?
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2024