make book on

Example Sentences

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Whatever comes next, Jackson can at least make book on one thing.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015

In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, after Thanksgiving, the consumption season begins, and business guessmen make book on whether or not autumn's inventories will be used up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paper is still the killer app for reading--you can make book on that.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rachel Deborah Shilsky could drive a car and pull a trailer behind it, but Ruth McBride Jordan had never touched a steering wheel before that day in 1973, and you can make book on it.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride