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

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

From Dollars and Sense by Hunter, William Crosbie

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 Bennett, Arnold

The younger men took the gambling chance with it.

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

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