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

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

"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 Standish, Burt L.

Take a gambling chance and marry me, Stella.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

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