bet the ranch

Example Sentences

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Sinner was such a heavy, historic favorite, you may have bet the ranch.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

But I wouldn’t bet the ranch on it.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

“I would bet the ranch that they wouldn’t,” Soboroff said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2021

I’d bet the ranch, though, that your feelings about your parents are more complicated than you suggest, that it’s not just their stinginess with money that pained—and still pains—you.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2019

If there’s any possible way that something can go wrong, you can bet the ranch that it will.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac