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

The younger men took the gambling chance with it.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward

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 Voorhies, Stephen J.

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 Brand, Max

Wheat is scarce for export even in the States just now, so I'm taking a gambling chance on getting this to port before the first quantities come from the north.

From Harrigan by Brand, Max