How to Use house of cards in a Sentence

house of cards

noun phrase
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  • By the end of 2019 the entire house of cards was collapsing.
    — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
  • Right now, the league feels like a serious house of cards.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 31 July 2023
  • Here’s the good news: the Drama Triangle is a house of cards.
    — Neha Sangwan, Fortune Well, 26 Sep. 2023
  • When the house of cards began to fall, Murdaugh murdered his wife and son.
    — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • One small move and the entire house of cards collapses.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Unable to satisfy them all, the house of cards tumbled.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 6 Oct. 2023
  • That was such an anthem for Derek to just get into this headspace of feeling like a badass, even though it's all built on a house of cards.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 Jan. 2024
  • That was such an anthem for Derek to just get into this headspace of feeling like a badass, even though it's all built on a house of cards.
    — The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Making matters worse was the fact that these fortunes were built on a financial house of cards.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
  • Hwang lost it all in March 2021 after the forerunner of Paramount shocked markets with a surprise share sale which brought down his house of cards.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 July 2024
  • The numbers must go up to keep this bubble from popping so annual growth is the only way to keep this whole house of cards from crumbling.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In the age where tin-foil hat conspiracies go mainstream, cracking the door with any breadcrumb to doubt the integrity of games was rigged or fixed builds a house of cards.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 13 July 2023
  • Working in tandem to keep both the gameplay and the technical aspects of the show on the rails, the frenzy of their overlapping roles adds a precariousness to the house of cards vibe of the show.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
  • Four thick, square bronze slabs, each pierced by a circular hole, are stacked atop a rectilinear base like a precarious house of cards.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • To speculate on such matters in a situation as fluid as this is like trying to build a house of cards in a whitewater raft.
    — M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2024
  • Russia also seems focused on building tools to disrupt the delicate house of cards that the U.S. and its allies have set up in space, with recent warnings of nukes in orbit.
    — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Turkish-Israeli rapprochement, in short, is resting on a house of cards that will be easily blown over at the first sign of Israeli-Palestinian trouble.
    — Michael J. Koplow, Foreign Affairs, 29 June 2016
  • If the unprofitable generic market structure is a house of cards, then the Intas manufacturing problems were a destabilizing breeze—and by no means the last.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Former Cred executives already opened and closed a whole new business, showing how companies in the crypto industry are often built on a house of cards.
    — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • Whitney and Asher have bet their whole, over-leveraged house of cards — shockingly, the economics of chic designer homes in an under-resourced area don’t quite pencil out — on their show’s success, but Dougie, too, needs a win.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The house of cards tumbled slowly, starting with an interview given by Charles Shaw, and Frank Fasian was finally pressured into doing damage control.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • The series also addresses the doctors and institutions who were duped and complicit in Paolo’s lies and the one woman who was willing to stand in her truth in the face of misogyny and disbelief so that Paolo’s house of cards might come tumbling down.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Clinton’s demolition of Trump’s house of cards was devastating and his responses were disasters by objective standards of decorum.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 26 June 2024

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