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
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
"Do you mean to say, Frank, that you'd recommend a fellow to take a kind of gambling chance like that on an examination paper?"
From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Burt L. Standish
The younger men took the gambling chance with it.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
