gambled

Example Sentences

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Some of the attacks took off from the word "gambled" which appeared nowhere in the article but was used in the promotional headline on LIFE'S cover: "How Dulles Gambled and Won."

From Time Magazine Archive

Here The Shampooer who Gambled and The Hole in the Wall are shortly followed by The Storm; and The Swapping of the Bullock-carts is closely succeeded by The Strangling of Vasantasenā.

From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Ryder, Arthur William

Gambled every day of his life for twenty-five years on the New York Stock Exchange, and now he has the effrontery to make a statement like that!

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)