gambling chance
Example Sentences
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When a business becomes shortsighted and is afraid to take a good gambling chance, it has started on a downgrade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had not the majority of the settlers taken this gambling chance of pulling through somehow, the West would never have been settled.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
Take a gambling chance and marry me, Stella.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Bertrand W. Sinclair
But Reeve, standing erect like some duelist of old, his left hand tucked into the hollow of his back, took the great gambling chance and refused to shoot to kill.
From Bull Hunter by Max Brand
The chief difference between the two cases is that the wise plain man has enslaved himself for about thirty years instead of three, with naught but a sheer gambling chance of final reward!
From The Plain Man and His Wife by Arnold Bennett
