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

It was good, in fact, for thirty cents cash, with a gambling chance up to five dollars; and the wise ones began to buy.

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane

"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.

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

Luck is the gambling chance, and horse sense is the investment and security chance.

From Dollars and Sense by Hunter, William Crosbie