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

To reorganize the schools with that possibility in mind was for the parents a surrender of their gambling chance.

From Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators by Marot, Helen

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

Take a gambling chance and marry me, Stella.

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

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.